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    Arguments for propositions should be rejected — Carmelics
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    Arguments for propositions should be rejected

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    • 1.Quine's indeterminacy of translation shows that no fact of the matter fixes which abstract objects serve as propositional meanings.
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    • 2.If no principled individuation criterion distinguishes propositions, positing them violates Ockham's razor against unexplanatory entities.
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    • 3.Deflationary theories of truth (Horwich, Ramsey) handle truth-talk without invoking proposition-entities, making arguments for propositions otiose.
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    • 1.Sellars' argument shows that positing propositions merely relocates the explanatory problem of intentionality rather than resolving it.
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    • 2.Scott Soames demonstrates that classical proposition theories generate granularity paradoxes that no structured or unstructured account escapes cleanly.
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    • 1.Arguments for propositions presuppose the Relational Analysis
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    • 2.The Relational Analysis does a poor job of accounting for certain linguistic data
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    How might one reply to the arguments for propositions just discussed? One might reply, of course, by arguing for the opposite conclusion. Thus, many have argued, on broadly naturalistic grounds, that we ought not accept propositions. Any such argument will involve controversial claims about the nature and status of propositions. These issues are discussed in section 7. However, one increasingly popular reply to arguments for propositions is to argue, (1), that they presuppose the Relational Anal
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