Given that the SM rewords the clause means that how the utterance has been expressed is immediately disregarded; meanwhile, the CG approach examines this type of structure by clearly giving precedence to syntax and, consequently, completely overlooks the actual meaning of the clause itself.
The hermeneutic fictionalist about a discourse D typically claims that there is a radical mismatch between on the one hand the assertoric contents of utterances of sentences of D (what is expressed in ordinary utterances of these sentences) and on the other hand the semantic contents of these sentences (what these sentences semantically express, in the contexts of utterance).
This definition is questioned by the assumption that thoughts or propositions are expressed by utterances (or speakers).
So, if the sense of 'today' were its role, the same thought would be expressed by every utterances of (6), regardless of the day of occurrence.
The Ryleans in Sellars's myth have thoughts that are expressed in their utterances, but they don't realize that they have such inner states.
If they do not, then they are in a position to believe what is expressed by an utterance of 'Today is fine' without believing what is expressed by an utterance of 'The day of this utterance is fine', in which case, by Accept, the two sentence express different propositions.
It is not clear why a fictionalist hypothesis about which proposition is expressed in an utterance should incur an obligation to a compositional fictionalist semantics.
Consider an experience whose contents include those that are expressed by an utterance of 'There is a red cube at location location
On this account, one can correctly believe that Pegasus does not exist, since what one believes is what is expressed by an utterance of (7), namely the true proposition that there does not exist a unique individual that is a winged horse.
Similarly, when someone says 'I believe that p', this is a confession based on what he thinks that may be the case, i.e. p. Although information about p is relevant for this utterance, he is expressing his belief, i.e. he makes clear what he thinks is credible and is, perhaps, important for him.
One can be a use fictionalist while holding that one's view is about what proposition is expressed in an ordinary utterance of a relevant sentence.
