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    It is not the case that The actual existence of things outside the soul is not always required for an affirmative proposition to be true.

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.Truth is a relation of correspondence between a proposition and a fact obtaining in reality, not merely between concepts (Aristotle, Metaphysics 1011b25).
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    • 2.A proposition affirming something of a subject has truth-conditions that require the subject's referent to exist in order for the predication to obtain.
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    • 3.If no human beings exist, 'a human being is an animal' fails to correspond to any actual state of affairs, rendering it truth-valueless rather than true.
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    • 1.Frege and Russell established that universal affirmatives like 'all S are P' carry existential import only under interpretations that presuppose non-empty domains.
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    • 2.Kilwardby's move to ground truth in common natures rather than existents covertly relocates truth from propositions to definitions, conflating analytic necessity with propositional truth.
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    • 3.A proposition that is true solely in virtue of conceptual containment is a definition or tautology, not a genuine affirmative truth about the world.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Some propositions predicate a common nature rather than an individual existent.
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    • 2.When a predicate belongs necessarily to the nature of the subject (e.g., 'a human being is an animal'), the proposition is true regardless of whether any instance actually exists outside the soul.
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