 Returning to the main theme, we are trying to say what relation holds together Dara and the property of swimming in the proposition that Dara swims on King’s view. King claims that we ought to be sure that we pick a relation such that there are good independent grounds for thinking that Dara and the property really do stand in that relation, so that the proposition in question exists. Given that ‘Dara’ has Dara as its semantic value and that ‘swims’ has the property of swimming as its semantic value, then in virtue of the existence of the English sentence ‘Dara swims’, here is a two-place relation that Dara and the property of swimming stand in: