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    King's 2014 argument establishes that propositional repre... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Propositions are abstract, necessary existents that essentially and primitively represent the world as being a certain way, without any explanation being possible for this fact.

    King's 2014 argument establishes that propositional representation is grounded in facts about language use and cognitive agents, not in primitively representational simples.

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    • 1.Representation requires intentionality, which arises only from goal-directed systems engaged in practical activities and communication.
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    • 2.Historical and comparative analysis shows representational systems emerge within communities of users, not from intrinsic properties of symbols.
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    • 3.Grounding representation in primitives creates infinite regress: primitives need interpretation, which requires further representational machinery.
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    • 1.Language use and cognitive capacities themselves appear to presuppose representational content as foundational rather than derived.
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    • 2.Use-based accounts struggle explaining how agents understand novel propositions they've never encountered in actual practice before.
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    • 3.Some mental representations (e.g., visual imagery) function representationally before or independent of language-use conventions.
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