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Full Idea
There is a distinction between worldly and unworldly sentences, between sentences that depend for their truth upon the worldly circumstances and those that do not.
Gist of Idea
Some sentences depend for their truth on worldly circumstances, and others do not
Source
Kit Fine (Necessity and Non-Existence [2005], Intro)
Book Ref
Fine,Kit: 'Modality and Tense' [OUP 2005], p.321
A Reaction
Fine is fishing around in the area between the necessary, the a priori, truthmakers, and truth-conditions. He appears to be attempting a singlehanded reconstruction of the concepts of metaphysics. Is he major, or very marginal?