Speaking of Qualities
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چکیده
Indefinites in intensional contexts, such as attitude reports or intensional argument positions, give rise to a well-known ambiguity. Consider (1): On the so-called specific reading, it says that there is a particular object which happens to be a jacket like Malte’s jacket such that Adrian wants to buy that particular object. Adrian need not know that that object is a jacket like Malte’s. On the so-called unspecific reading, Adrian wants to buy some jacket or other which meets his requirement of being like Malte’s jacket.
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