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    It is not the case that Sense cannot be identified with the proposition that expresses it.

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    • 1.Frege's sense (Sinn) just is the mode of presentation of a referent, fully captured by the semantic role of the expression itself.
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    • 2.If sense is exhausted by its semantic role within propositions, no residual 'subsistence' remains to ground a distinction from the proposition.
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    • 3.Positing a separate ontological status for sense beyond propositional expression multiplies entities beyond necessity, violating parsimony.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Quine's indeterminacy of translation shows that no determinate sense-entity is fixed by any proposition, undermining sense as a stable object distinct from propositional use.
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    • 2.If sense lacks determinate identity conditions independent of linguistic behavior, the claim that it 'subsists' apart from propositions is empirically vacuous.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Sense does not exist outside the proposition that expresses it.
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    • 2.Sense has a distinct 'objectity' of its own — it subsists or insists rather than exists.
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    • 3.An entity with its own mode of being (subsistence) is distinct from the entity through which it is expressed.
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