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    It is not the case that Propositions that have never been and never will be tokened can still have truth conditions.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.On Dummettian anti-realist grounds, the truth conditions of a sentence are constituted by our recognitional capacities and verification practices.
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    • 2.A proposition that has never been and never will be tokened lies permanently outside any possible verification practice, rendering its 'truth conditions' epistemically idle.
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    • 3.Semantic content that is in principle unconnected to any use-practice is not a genuine semantic property but a theoretical fiction.
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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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