method names with fluent interface

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I have a Permissions class with methods in fluent style like this:

somePermissions.setRead(true).setWrite(false).setExecute(true)

The question is, whether I should name these methods set{Property} or only {property}. The latter would look like this:

somePermissions.read(true).write(false).execute(true)

If I look at these methods separately I would expect that read reads something, but on the other hand it is closer to the intention to have something like named paramaters like in Scala:

Permission(read=true, write=false, execute=true)

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