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    Propositions are simple and have no constituents. — Carmelics
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    Supports→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.

    Propositions are simple and have no constituents.

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    Above it was mentioned that King [2007] and subsequent work endorsed three novel claims about propositions. Two of these are: (i) theories according to which propositions have truth conditions and so represent the world as being a certain way by their very natures and independently of minds and languages are mysterious and to be rejected; (ii) an adequate theory of propositions must explain how\why propositions have truth conditions and so represent the world as being a certain way.[24] It was

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