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This scholarly work addresses the logico-semantic challenges posed by “objectual” attitude ascriptions—sentences like “Alice wants a unicorn”—that involve intensional transitive verbs (e.g., want, seek, imagine, worship). Forbes develops an original semantic theory explaining two core phenomena: the failure of substitution with co-referential terms (opacity) and the distinction between relational (de re) and notional (de dicto or unspecific) readings. Drawing from natural language semantics, philosophy of language, and aesthetics, the essay offers a refined account of mental-state ascriptions using intensional transitive verbs

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245: $a: Attitude Problems: An Essay on Linguistic Intensionality
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100: $a: Graeme Forbes
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250: $b: Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press)
250: $c: 2006
020: $a: 978-0-19-927494-9
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