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    It is not the case that The representational capacities of propositions must derive from and be explained by the representational capacities of thinking agents

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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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    Reasons Against

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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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