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    It is not the case that Intentional states are propositional attitudes — relations between individuals and propositions

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    • 1.Fodor's language of thought hypothesis shows mental content is sub-propositional and compositional at the level of mental representations.
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    • 2.If propositions are constructed from conceptual constituents in mentalese, the relation is between individuals and mental sentences, not abstract propositions.
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    • 3.Russell's acquaintance model presupposes abstract propositions as primitives, but this ontological commitment is independently contested by nominalists like Quine.
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    • 1.Phenomenal states like pain have intentional character yet resist propositional decomposition into subject-relation-proposition triads.
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    • 2.Chalmers and Siewert argue that phenomenal consciousness grounds intentionality, making propositional structure derivative rather than fundamental.
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    • 1.Russell conceived of each mental state as involving the individual's acquaintance with a proposition
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    • 2.The proposition is both what is understood when the state is reported and the content of the individual's state of mind
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