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• @article{Toner2006-TONCEP,author = {Patrick Toner},title = {Contingently Existing Propositions?},pages = {421--434},volume = {129},year = {2006},abstract = {It is fairly common, among those who think propositions exist, to think they exist necessarily. Here, I consider three arguments in support of that conclusion. What I hope to show is not that that claim is false, but, rather, that the arguments used in its defense tend to presuppose a certain kind of approach to modality: a roughly Plantingian view. What the arguments show, then, is that one cannot accept that approach to modality and accept contingently existing propositions. But there are other approaches to modality -- I discuss three such approaches -- into which contingently existing propositions fit perfectly well. This suggests that disputes over, for example, singular propositions, must be conducted within a broader agreement over modal matters if they are to be at all productive.},journal = {Philosophical Studies},number = {3}}@

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• Contingently Existing Propositions?

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