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Propositions that have never been and never will be tokened can still have truth conditions.

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1.Action types inherit truth conditions from both actual and possible token instances.
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2.Possible instances suffice to ground the inheritance of truth conditions even when no actual token exists.
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1.Truth conditions require a determinate representational relationship, which only concrete tokening events can establish.
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2.Merely possible tokens cannot ground actual semantic relations without collapsing the distinction between actuality and possibility.
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3.A proposition whose truth conditions derive solely from non-actual instances has no more semantic standing than a proposition about a round square.
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