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The term '''''proposition''''' has a broad use in [[contemporary philosophy]]. It is used to refer to some or all of the following: the primary bearers of [[truth]]-value, the objects of [[belief]] and other "[[propositional attitude]]s" (i.e., what is believed, doubted, etc.), the [[referent]]s of that-clauses and the [[meaning (linguistics)|meaning]]s of declarative [[sentence (linguistics)|sentence]]s. Propositions are the sharable objects of attitudes and the primary bearers of truth and falsity. This stipulation rules out certain candidates for propositions, including thought- and utterance-tokens which presumably are not sharable, and concrete events or facts, which presumably cannot be false.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/propositions/ |title=Propositions (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) |publisher=Plato.stanford.edu |date= |accessdate=2014-06-23}}</ref>