ABSTRACT

In the next section, we accept Soames’s explanation of why propositions have truth-conditional properties and criticize his explanation of why propositions have representational properties.30

6. Problems with extension Soames (2014b, 241) now favors the extension model over the inheritance model and regards a principle like Universal Inheritance that the inheritance model relies on as ‘absurd.’ But it is not clear that saying that propositions have extended versions of representational properties explains what needs to be explained. What needs to be explained is why, for example, SUPPLICATE has representing Mother Teresa as supplicating, not why SUPPLICATE has an extended version of that property.