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This document discusses the tension between two views of propositions: 1) Propositions must vary in truth value across times, worlds, and locations in order to serve as the semantic values of sentences embedded under operators like tenses, modals, and location expressions. 2) However, the objects of beliefs and attitudes cannot vary in truth value across times and locations, as that would make little sense. What one believes must be about a specific time and place. David Lewis argues that propositions

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Milica Šešić

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