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    Conceptualism about propositions is ruled out — Carmelics
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    Conceptualism about propositions is ruled out

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    • 1.If the Easy Arguments succeed, propositions must be mind-independent abstract entities
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    • 2.Conceptualism holds that propositions are mind-dependent entities
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    • 3.Mind-independent entities cannot be mind-dependent entities
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    • 1.The Easy Arguments establish that 'something is believed' exists, but underdetermine whether that thing is mind-independent or a repeatable mental type.
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    • 2.Conceptualists like Kant and neo-Kantians can accommodate intersubjective, shareable mental types that explain the data without positing Platonic abstracta.
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    • 3.An argument ruling out conceptualism must show mind-independence is required, not merely consistent with, the Easy Arguments' conclusions.
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    • 1.Psychologism about propositions was prematurely dismissed via Frege's anti-psychologism, which targeted crude 19th-century associationism, not sophisticated conceptualism.
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    • 2.Contemporary conceptualists like Jubien and Schiffer argue propositions can be abstract types of mental states, preserving mind-dependence without subjective variation.
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    • 3.If proposition-types are abstract in the way linguistic types are abstract, mind-dependence and abstractness are not mutually exclusive, undermining P3 of the supporting argument.
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    It is dangerous to generalize these sorts of “Easy Arguments” to all propositions (particularly singular propositions). But even if they cannot be fully generalized, they threaten to show that propositions would be mind-independent abstract entities. Now, given that propositions de jure are sharable objects of attitudes, it is antecedently unlikely that they should turn out to be, say, token utterances. But one might have thought that propositions could be identified with natural language senten
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