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    Supports→The identity theory of truth faces an objection based on the non-congruence of canonical names of propositions and facts.

    Vendler's linguistic analysis in 'Res Cogitans' establishes that nominalization patterns for facts and propositions diverge systematically across natural languages, not merely in English.

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    Key Terms

    Linguistic analysis(as used in philosophy of language)
    Breaking down language—words, sentences, meanings—to understand what's really being said and how it works.
    Systematically(as describing a consistent problem with voting methods)
    Happening as a regular pattern or built-in feature of how something works, rather than by accident or rarely.
    Vendler(the statement refers to his work and analysis)
    Zeno Vendler was a 20th-century philosopher and linguist who studied how language works, particularly how words are structured and what they reveal about how we think.
    facts(Used as relata in form (1) of the correspondence theory)
    States of affairs that obtain; unlike states of affairs in general, facts cannot serve as meanings of false sentences without absurd consequences

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    nominalization(Used in the context of fictionalist responses to the Quine-Putnam indispensability argument)
    The reformulation of an empirical theory in a way that avoids reference to abstract objects
    propositions(Answer to the question of what metaphysical category propositions belong to)
    Entities belonging to a sui generis metaphysical category of their own kind, not reducible to other categories
    res cogitans(Descartes' substance dualism in the Meditationes)
    Mental substance (mind) whose essence is thought; distinct from and independent of material substance in Cartesian dualism

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