Scott Soames argues that the diagonal proposition generated by 2D semantics is not the same proposition as what a speaker asserts, undermining the framework's semantic credentials.

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2D semantics(philosophy of language): A theory of meaning that uses two different dimensions or levels to explain what words mean: one for how we think about them, and one for what they actually refer to.
Scott Soames(as a defender of Millianism): A contemporary American philosopher who studies philosophy of language and logic, focusing on how sentences express propositions and convey meaning.
Semantic credentials(as what Soames argues the framework loses): Whether a theory about meaning actually succeeds at correctly explaining how language gets its meaning; its credibility as an explanation of semantics.
diagonal proposition(Stalnaker's mechanism for pragmatic reinterpretation of assertions that would otherwise violate the assertion rule): The proposition that the sentence uttered semantically expresses a true proposition; derived by evaluating, at each world in the context set, whether the proposition semantically expressed by the sentence at that world is true at that world

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