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    It is not the case that The action type of predicating a property of an object inherits truth conditions from its token instances.

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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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    • 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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