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| | Two-Dimensional Semantics |
 | | For example, one might suppose that when two singular terms are cognitively equivalent (so that 'a=b' is trivial or at least knowable a priori, for example), then their extension will coincide in all possible worlds, so that they will have the same intension. |
 | | And one might suppose that when two such terms are cognitively distinct (so that 'a=b' is knowable only empirically, for example), then their extensions will differ in some possible world, so that they will have different intensions. |
 | | The framework does have two semantic values: the proposition expressed by an sentence, which is something like the familiar proposition that is true in all worlds where Whitworth invented the zip, and the content of the sentence, which behaves as characterized above. |
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