 Each disjunct expresses a proposition that includes as a sub act the act of predicating a property of the object according to Hanks. But the predication is cancelled. Hence, the asserting/committing element in the proposition is cancelled. Hanks must walk a very fine line here. The inherently assertive committal aspect of predication is what explains both that propositions are true and false and that unembedded propositions make  assertions.[23]  To explain why some embedded propositions don’t make assertions, Hanks appeals to the notion of the predication being cancelled in virtue of occurring in a cancellation context. But of course Hanks will want to say that the embedded proposition still has truth conditions and is true or false. Somehow in canceling the predication, though assertive force is cancelled the truth conditions and truth-value aren’t, even though predication is responsible for both. 