The generation occurs by a simple process of abstraction, such reference-level facts or fact-like entities being merely equivalence classes of suitable Thoughts (that is, Thoughts expressed by synonymous sentences according to some appropriate standard of synonymy).
Thus, it has been suggested, less in print perhaps than in conversation, that propositions are needed to play the role of being what synonymous sentences have in common, what a sentence and its translation into another language have in common, etc. Arguments of this sort are typically met with the following reply: commonalties do not necessarily require common relations to a single entity.
Still, the semantics is not in conflict with (C): tautologies might differ structurally or in the meaning of their constituents, which could explain how their embedding can yield non-synonymous sentences; cf. Carnap (1947) and Lewis (1970).
An expressivist semantics requires a one-one mapping of non-synonymous sentences to states of mind, but insofar as fictionalism doesn't require a nonstandard semantics it may be able to get away with a looser connection between the mental states and the sentences that express them.
Take two of its non-synonymous sentences — say, 'Elephants are grey' and 'Julius Caesar was murdered on the ides of March' — and define Crypto-English as the language with the same expressions, the same syntax and almost the same semantics as English.
It involved replacing words, sentences, or paragraphs with synonymous words, sentences, or paragraphs in order to get technically "new" content (to avoid duplicate content penalties) while keeping the meaning of the content essentially the same.
The only difference is that if a sentence is synonymous in English with one of the two designated sentences, then it is synonymous with the other in Crypto-English.
This was French spacing a term synonymous with single-space sentence spacing until the late 20th century.
That sentence is synonymous with the late Patricia J. Ellison, and in it we understand everything about her.
Cancer has long been one of the most feared diseases; widely regarded as synonymous with a death sentence.
