Every proposition is simple
Following a suggestion from Rubenstein (2025), one can defend the very counter-intuitive hypothesis that there are no conjunctive propositions by arguing that whenever we seem to assert a conjunction what we are actually doing is distributively assert a pair of proposition and not a proposition that is a conjunction. The same for any other propositional attitude. Thus, there is no need to postulate conjunctions. However, following a strategy from Thunder (2025), I claim that we can extend the argument so that nothing but elementary propositions exist. According to Champollion (2015), the following are examples of sentences with distributive predication: John, Peter and Bill carried a briefcase. All the men carried a briefcase. The notion of distributive predication has been developed to account for “the behavior of predicates when they occur with plural definites, noun phrases headed by distributive quantifiers like every, and noun phrases coordinated by and.” (Champ...