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    It is not the case that When a second speaker says 'The murderer might not have been on campus,' they express a numerically distinct proposition relative to their own epistemic state, not a reassessment of the first proposition.

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    • 1.Both speakers express the same possibility: that the murderer wasn't on campus. Epistemic states don't create new propositions.
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    • 2.If propositions varied with each speaker's knowledge, the same sentence would express infinitely many propositions across contexts.
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    • 3.Speaker 2 can rationally evaluate the first speaker's claim against their own evidence—presupposing they discuss one proposition.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Propositions are individuated partly by the epistemic context of utterance, not just truth-conditions or content.
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    • 2.Speaker 2's different evidence base creates a distinct propositional object, even if the sentence is identical.
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    • 3.Treating them as the same proposition conflates the semantic content with variations in justified belief states.
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