But since he thinks that propositions are structured entities with constituents, he must think that event types are structured entities with constituents.
In KS, word meanings are structured entities whose representations are called semantic markers.
If propositions are structured entities, then sameness of constituents and sameness of order will entail identity.
According to some, situations are structured entities consisting of relations and individuals standing in those relations.
The question of identity conditions for propositions is importantly related to the question of whether propositions are structured entities.
One can divide theories of propositions into those that take them to be structured entities and those that take them to be unstructured entities.
Therefore this approach builds on definitional reflection, which applies harmony and inversion to rules for arbitrarily structured entities rather than for logical composites only.
A positive answer to this question emerges from considerations on truth values as structured entities which, by virtue of their internal structure, give rise to natural partial orderings on the set of values.
Soames [1987] concludes that we ought to give up the view that propositions are sets of worlds of any sort, and embrace an account of propositions according to which propositions are structured entities, with individuals, properties and relations as constituents.
Thus, we should not assume that occasion meanings are structured entities built from objects, properties, and relations, or even that the occasion meanings of declarative sentences are always propositions.
