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    The paraphrase of '3 is prime' as 'If there were numbers, then 3 would be prime' is implausible.

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    • 1.A good paraphrase must capture what speakers actually mean.
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    • 2.Speakers who say '3 is prime' mean simply that 3 is prime, not a conditional about hypothetical numbers.
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    Moreover, it seems plausible to maintain that this is a good paraphrase of (A1), because it seems clear that when people say things like (A1), what they really mean are things like (A2). But in the present case, this seems wrong: it does not seem plausible to suppose that when people say ‘3 is prime’, what they really mean is ‘If there were numbers, then 3 would be prime’. Again, it seems that what we mean here is, very simply, that 3 is prime. In short, when people say things like ‘3 is prime’,
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