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    Soames must hold that event types are structured entities with constituents.

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    • 1.Soames holds that propositions are structured entities with constituents.
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    • 2.Soames identifies propositions with event types.
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    • 3.Therefore, event types must themselves be structured entities with constituents.
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    • 1.Event types can be individuated extensionally by their instances without themselves possessing internal mereological or syntactic structure.
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    • 2.Soames's identification of propositions with event types is compatible with event types being primitive universals, as in Kim's property-exemplification account.
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    • 3.If event types are primitive universals, the inference from propositional structure to event-type structure commits a category error by projecting representational structure onto ontological kinds.
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    • 1.Soames's account requires that propositions have cognitive or instructional content, not that their ontological realizers must mirror that structure.
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    • 2.A token cognitive event can be structured while the type it instantiates remains unstructured, just as a particular sentence token is spatially arranged while the word type has no spatial parts.
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    • 3.Therefore, event types serving as propositions need not themselves be structured entities even if the proposition's representational role is structured.
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    Soames begins with the notion of the mental act of predication, which he takes to be primitive. However, by way of illustration, if an agent perceives an object o as red, and so has a perceptual experience that represents o as being red, the agent predicates redness of o. Similarly, if an agent “thinks of” o as red[19], or “form[s] the nonlinguistic perceptual belief that o is red”.[20] For Soames, predicating redness of o does not amount to believing that o is red. To believe that o is red,
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