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The representational capacities of propositions must derive from and be explained by the representational capacities of thinking agents

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1.Propositions represent the world as being a certain way
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2.The representational capacities of propositions cannot be something propositions have inherently and by their natures
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1.Fregean senses and Platonic propositions possess determinate truth-conditions as abstract objects, independent of any mind's representational acts.
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2.If abstract objects can instantiate mathematical structure without minds, they can instantiate representational structure without minds.
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1.The supporting argument equivocates: that propositions lack *intrinsic* representation does not entail representation must derive from *thinking agents* specifically.
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2.Semantic externalism (Putnam, Burge) establishes that representational content is fixed by mind-independent environmental and social facts, not solely by agents' mental capacities.
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Peter Hanks [2015] defends a view with some similarities to Soames’ view discussed above. As did Soames, Hanks follows King in endorsing the three novel claims from King [2007] and subsequent work mentioned above: (i) Hanks rejects theories according to which propositions have truth conditions and so represent the world as being a certain way by their very natures and independently of minds and languages as mysterious; (ii) holds that an adequate theory of propositions must explain how\why propo

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