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    Therefore, event types serving as propositions need not t... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Soames must hold that event types are structured entities with constituents.

    Therefore, event types serving as propositions need not themselves be structured entities even if the proposition's representational role is structured.

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    • 1.Representational structure can emerge from functional roles rather than intrinsic composition of the vehicle itself.
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    • 2.Event tokens can ground propositions while event types remain causally efficacious without being structurally complex.
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    • 3.Structured content doesn't require structured bearers, just as structured information needn't require structured storage media.
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    • 1.If propositions have structured representational roles, their metaphysical bearers must exhibit corresponding structural properties.
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    • 2.Event types lack the requisite complexity to ground fine-grained propositional distinctions that structured roles demand.
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    • 3.Positing unstructured entities that possess structured representational functions creates unexplained explanatory gaps.
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