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    It is not the case that Soames's account requires that propositions have cognitive or instructional content, not that their ontological realizers must mirror that structure.

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    • 1.Without structural isomorphism between content and realizers, the relationship between them becomes explanatorily mysterious and arbitrary.
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    • 2.If realizers don't mirror propositional structure, it's unclear what grounds propositions' compositional semantics and logical operations.
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    • 3.Soames's account risks collapsing into mere stipulation—declaring content independent of structural facts without explaining how reference is fixed.
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    • 1.Propositions must have representational content to serve their epistemic function of being truth-apt and rationally evaluable.
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    • 2.The ontological structure of realizers (sets, abstract objects, etc.) need not replicate propositional structure for content to be determinate.
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    • 3.Many successful representational systems (maps, diagrams) convey content despite realizers structurally unlike what they represent.
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