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    It is not the case that The fact that sentences (3) and (4) have the form 'a is F' does not warrant the conclusion that their respective truth-makers have the structure: particular-exemplifying-same universal.

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    • 1.Frege's sense-reference distinction shows that grammatical predication systematically tracks a real distinction between objects and concepts.
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    • 2.If predication were not ontologically revelatory, the logical validity of inferences like 'Socrates is mortal, all mortals die, so Socrates dies' would be inexplicable.
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    • 3.The burden of proof lies with those who sever syntax from ontology, since our best formal semantics (Tarski, Davidson) treats predication as mapping to genuine extensions.
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    • 1.Armstrong's own truthmaker principle entails that distinct truths require distinct ontological grounds, which presupposes that sentence structure constrains what kinds of truthmakers are admissible.
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    • 2.If syntactic form places no constraints on truthmaker structure, then the truthmaker theorist loses the principled basis for rejecting brute-fact primitivism about truth.
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    • 1.Not all predicates express properties (Armstrongian immanent universals).
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    • 2.Predicates and their senses provide no sure guidance as to what properties the world contains.
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    • 3.The ontological structure of the truth-maker of a true sentence cannot be read off from the syntactic structure of the sentence of which it is the truth-maker.
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