Introduction: primitivism versus reductionism about the problem of the unity of the proposition

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Synthese 196 (4):1209-1224 (2019)
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We present here the papers selected for the volume on the Unity of Propositions problems. After summarizing what the problems are, we locate them in a spectrum from those aiming to provide substantive, reductive explanations, to those with a more deflationary take on the problems

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