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    Challenges→The action type of predicating a property of an object inherits truth conditions from its token instances.

    Frege's distinction between sense and force entails that predication as an act-type is semantically inert until tokened with assertoric force.

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    • 1.Sense determines what is said; force determines what is done. Predication without force is merely semantic content, not a complete speech act.
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    • 2.A sentence tokened as a question or conditional has identical sense to the same sentence asserted, yet produces different effects. This shows force is required for semantic activation.
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    • 3.Frege explicitly separated the horizontal from the judgment stroke to show that grasping content differs from endorsing it as true. Semantic inertness captures this distinction.
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    • 1.Predicating 'is red' in 'The rose is red' already contributes semantic meaning (property attribution) regardless of assertoric force. Meaning and force are distinct but not ordered.
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    • 2.Understanding a conditional 'If P then Q' requires grasping the semantic connection between P and Q before considering assertoric force. Semantics precedes pragmatics.
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    • 3.Frege's sense/force distinction aimed to clarify truth-conditions and mental content, not to claim unasserted content lacks semantic contribution. The claim overstates his thesis.
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