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    Supports→A nonstandard semantics of modal adverbs like 'necessarily' and 'contingently' could achieve the same result as denying that propositions bear modal properties, without abandoning that doctrine.

    The behavior of 'so-called' in sentences like 'Superman is so-called for his super powers' provides a precedent for context-sensitive predication of this kind.

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    There are two main responses to the modal argument in the literature. The first involves a denial of the principle that, if p = p*, then p and p* have the same truth value in all counterfactual circumstances. Michael Dummett (1991) and Jason Stanley (1997a/b; 2002) have developed this response by denying that propositions are the bearers of modal properties. Dummett distinguishes senses from what he calls ingredient senses. Senses give the contents of expressions, are the bearers of truth and fa

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