 express the same proposition on this view. Many have found this result incredible, since it would appear that the one sentence could be informative and the other not. Salmon and Soames also hold that ‘believes’ expresses a relation between individuals and propositions, so that ‘Scott believes that Mark Twain is Samuel Clemens’ expresses a proposition to the effect Scott stands in the believes relation to the proposition expressed by ‘Mark Twain is Samuel Clemens’. But then it follows that ‘Scott believes that Mark Twain is Samuel Clemens’ and ‘Scott believes that Samuel Clemens is Samuel Clemens’ express the same proposition (since the embedded sentences in both belief ascriptions express the same proposition) and so cannot diverge in truth value. Many have found this consequence of the Salmon-Soames view of propositions (and belief ascriptions) hard to swallow as well.