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    Supports→Modes of presentation need not be complex properties uniquely exemplified by the referent of the name.

    What is required is only that the mode associated with 'Hesperus' differs from that associated with 'Phosphorus', not that the mode be a property the referent uniquely instantiates.

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    Hesperus(Standard example in philosophy of language)
    A proper name used to designate the evening star (the planet Venus), functioning as a rigid designator
    Phosphorus(Standard example in philosophy of language)
    A proper name used to designate the morning star (the planet Venus), functioning as a rigid designator
    Uniquely instantiates(in metaphysics and logic)
    To be the only thing in existence that has a particular quality or characteristic—for example, only Earth uniquely instantiates 'being our home planet.'

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    Related propositions within the same area of thought.
    mode(In Spinoza's system, all finite things are modes of the one substance)
    A dependent modification or attribute of a substance, lacking independent existence
    property(Locke's demonstration of the moral proposition 'Where there is no property, there is no injustice.')
    A right to something.
    referent(what Russell says is the sole meaning of proper names)
    The actual thing in the real world that a word points to or stands for—for example, the referent of 'Abraham Lincoln' is the actual historical person.

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    If propositions are unstructured and distinct from sets, there are several possibilities for explaining their identity conditions. First, identity conditions might be specified in terms of possible attitudes. One possibility is this: P=Q if, necessarily whoever believes (asserts, denies, etc.) P believes (asserts, denies, etc.) Q, and vice versa. Second, proposition identity might be reduced to property identity in the manner of Myhill (1963) and Zalta (1983). Thus, Zalta (1983, 72) offers the

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