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  1. Soames (2015), pp. 23–25.

  2. These include sets of world-states, sets of centered states, sets of abstract situations, n-tuples of objects and properties, and collections of Fregean senses.

  3. See chapter 5 of Soames (2010a) for a detailed discussion.

  4. Pages 128–129 of Soames (2010b), pp. 62–64 of Soames (2014), and page 29 of Soames (2015).

  5. Soames (2015), pp. 36–39.

  6. The brief discussion on pp. 31–32 fails to clearly distinguish the two properties, and at one place conflates them.

  7. Thanks to Jeremy Goodman for a discussion of these issues.

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Thanks to Stephen Schiffer, Ben Caplan, and the audience at the Author Meets Critics session chaired by Trenton Mericks on Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning for their well informed and thought provoking comments.

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Soames, S. Yes, the search for explanation is all we have. Philos Stud 173, 2565–2573 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-016-0636-0

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