The Way We Talk About Things Doesn't Always Line Up With the Way Things Are

Riles gives a nice account of how it can happen that the ways people express facts don't line up very well with the structures of the facts they mean to express. The sentence Taylor Swift is popular really asserts that a certain property belongs to a bunch of people other than Taylor Swift. Riles suggests that we should sometimes rephrase misleading expressions to keep the poor philosophers in the picture.