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    The action type of predicating a property of an object in... — Carmelics
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    The action type of predicating a property of an object inherits truth conditions from its token instances.

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    • 1.Token acts of predicating properties of objects have truth conditions.
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    • 2.Types inherit certain kinds of properties from their tokens.
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    • 3.Having truth conditions is the kind of property a type inherits from its actual and possible tokens.
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    • 1.Types, as abstract universals, lack causal-temporal situatedness, which is precisely what grounds truth conditions in token acts.
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    • 2.Truth conditions require sensitivity to context of utterance (speaker, time, world), which type-level abstraction systematically strips away.
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    • 3.Therefore, types cannot inherit truth conditions from tokens without collapsing the type/token distinction that motivates the framework.
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    • 1.Frege's distinction between sense and force entails that predication as an act-type is semantically inert until tokened with assertoric force.
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    • 2.A property inherited uniformly across all possible tokens cannot accommodate the variability in truth conditions across distinct token contexts.
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    • 3.The inheritance relation presupposes a stable type-identity, but truth-conditional variance across tokens undermines any single inheritable truth condition.
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    Hanks’ explanation of why propositions as act types of the sort described have truth conditions comes in two steps. First, Hanks argues that token acts of predicating properties of objects have truth conditions. Hanks recognizes that some may doubt whether act tokens are the kinds of things that can be true and false. His main argument that they can be is that we have adverbial modifiers ‘truly’ and ‘falsely’ and that these attribute properties to action tokens. So just as ‘quickly’ in ‘Obama qu
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