Introduction

The initial brief for propositions being the referents or denotations of sentential complements in these contexts is that we can report what people say and think indifferently in any suitably rich language. Sententialists about attitude reports aim to show that this is not an obstacle to taking the sentential complements to refer to sentencesprovided thatweare sophisticatedenough abouthowwe tell the story about the relation between the semantic properties of the complement sentence in the

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