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    It is not the case that Arguments for propositions should be rejected

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    Reasons For

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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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    • 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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