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    It is not the case that Gregory explicitly follows Adam Wodeham in treating the complexe significabile as that which is known (scitum) and believed (creditum), giving it an ineliminable epistemic role.

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    • 1.Treating complexe significabilia as what is known invokes obscure abstract entities whose ontological status remains philosophically unclear.
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    • 2.This framework risks collapsing the distinction between the content of thought and its truth conditions, conflating semantics with metaphysics.
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    • 3.Modern externalist epistemology better explains belief and knowledge through causal relations to the world, not intermediary semantic entities.
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    • 1.Wodeham's framework solves the problem of false belief by making the complexe significabile the direct object of cognition, not mental acts alone.
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    • 2.Gregory's adoption of this doctrine preserves medieval realism about propositions while avoiding psychologism about knowledge and belief.
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    • 3.The epistemic role of complexe significabilia explains how we can think the same thought across different mental states and languages.
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