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It is not the case that Predicative types inherit their representational features from both their actual and possible tokens.
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Possible tokens are abstract posits with no causal-representational powers; only actual tokenings generate genuine semantic content.
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Invoking merely possible tokens to ground truth-conditions smuggles in irreducibly modal facts, making the account explanatorily circular.
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Kripke's skeptical argument shows that no fact about past or possible use fixes a unique meaning for an expression, undermining rule-following for types.
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If possible tokens cannot determinately instantiate a type's representational rule, they cannot reliably transmit truth-conditions to the type.
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Even if no one has ever tokened a proposition, it can have truth-conditions if someone could counterfactually token it.
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The counterfactual token would have truth-conditions grounded in the world (e.g., a token predicating eloquence of Clinton would be true iff Clinton is eloquent).
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Therefore, the type inherits its truth-conditions from the possible token.
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