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    Supports→Reference alone does not explain the contribution that expressions make to the determination of the truth-value of all sentences in which they occur.

    Propositional attitude contexts like 'believes that' create intensional environments where truth-value is sensitive to the mode of presentation of a referent, not merely the referent itself.

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    Intensional (or intensional context)(as used in logic and philosophy of language)
    A situation where you can't just swap out words that mean the same thing without changing what's true—the *way* you describe something matters, not just *what* you're describing.
    mode of presentation(Fregean semantics)
    The way in which a name picks out or presents its referent; two names may share a referent while differing in their mode of presentation
    propositional attitude(Philosophy of language and mind)
    A mental state, such as belief, that relates a subject to a proposition.
    referent(what Russell says is the sole meaning of proper names)
    The actual thing in the real world that a word points to or stands for—for example, the referent of 'Abraham Lincoln' is the actual historical person.

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    truth-value(logic and philosophy of language)
    Whether a statement is true or false. Two statements can have different truth-values if one is true and the other is false.

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