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    It is not the case that Conceptualism about propositions is ruled out

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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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    • 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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