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    It is not the case that Sentences expressing propositional attitudes (such as 'Seneca believed that man is a rational animal') express a relation between agents and propositions, where propositions are objective abstract entities that are the ultimate vehicles of truth and meaning.

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    • 1.Propositional attitude reports are sensitive to the specific words used, not just abstract truth conditions (Frege's puzzle, Kripke's 'Paderewski' case).
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    • 2.If propositions were the sole objects of belief, co-referential terms would be interchangeable in belief contexts without affecting truth value.
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    • 3.Since substitution of co-referential terms in belief contexts can alter truth value, propositions as typically construed cannot be the complete objects of belief.
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    • 1.Quine argued that propositional attitude sentences resist quantification into and create referentially opaque contexts, undermining their logical tractability.
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    • 2.An ontology of abstract propositions multiplies entities beyond necessity when behavioral or functional-state analyses can account for attitude ascriptions without positing abstract objects.
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    • 3.Churchland's eliminativist and Ryle's dispositional accounts show that 'believing' may denote complex behavioral dispositions, not genuine relations to abstract entities.
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    • 1.Sentences like 'Seneca believed that man is a rational animal' and 'Columbus believed that the world is round' require an object of the believing relation.
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    • 2.The most natural analysis of such sentences posits objective abstract entities (propositions) as that object.
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