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    It is not the case that Soames must hold that event types are 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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    • 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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