Full Idea
My account says that each proposition is a necessary existent that essentially represents things as being a certain way, ...and there is no explanation of how propositions do that.
Gist of Idea
Propositions are necessary existents which essentially (but inexplicably) represent things
Source
Trenton Merricks (Propositions [2015], Intro)
Book Reference
Merricks,Trenton: 'Propositions' [OUP 2015], p.-2
A Reaction
Since I take propositions to be brain events, I don't expect much of an explanation either. The idea that propositions necessarily exist strikes me as false. If there were no minds, there would have been no propositions.
Related Idea
Idea 15154 We should use cognitive states to explain representational propositions, not vice versa [Soames]