Graeme Forbes
attribution adverts, aia the hidden ‘so to a part-
culax one of the ways of thinking of the relevant
STP. For example, ‘Superman is an extraterres-
‘wal? and ‘Chrk Kent comes from somewhere
other than Earth’ refer t the sime STP, the
same complex of objects and properties. But as
complement clauses in atitude aseripions,
they can invoke different ways of thinking of that
STP.
According 10 the analysis, an attribution's
ccomraplement clause provides a “labeling” by the
ascriber of a putative way of thinking employed by
the subject of the attribution: the words of the
clase are “linguistic counterparts” ofthe subject's
thought constituents (this does sot mean the
subject uses those same words). Thus we may
understand
(2a) Lois believes shat Superman isan extra
terrestrial
(Gib) The situation-rype of Superman's being
an extraterrestrial is such that Lais
believes her so-abeled way of thinking
of it
‘The Iogophor ‘so in (8b) refers to the entire
phrase ‘Superman's being an extraterrestrial’, and
‘hus substitution for both ‘Superman’ and ‘extrax
terrestrial’ is blocked, just as substitution for
“Gioorgione’ is blocked in (3). So (84), interpreted
s(8b), does not ental that Lois believes that Clark
‘Kent comes ffom somewhere other than Earth; see
Forbes 1990, 1993 for further discussion of the
details of this account.
(8b) permits no substicution at all im the
complement clause of (82). A reading of (8)
that permits substitution throughout can be
obtained by replacing ‘her so-abeled” in (8b)
with ‘some’:
(Bo) The situation-type of Superman's being
fan extraterrestrial is such that Lois
believes some way of thinking of it.
It suffices for the truth of (Be) that Lois believe
that Clark Kent comes from somewhere other than
Earth,
termediate readings of (8a) may be obtained
bby adjusting what the ‘so! refers to (its exten)
However, explicitly exhibiting the extent of the
D
‘so requires some notation, which we introduce
in series of steps. According co (8b), at the level
‘of logical form (8a) contains an “articulated term”
(Richard 1993) for an STP formed by raising the
‘complement clause out of its surface postion and
rewording appropriately J will use square brackets
‘Tan ‘T and the actual wording of the comple-
ment clause to form such definite descriptions.
‘Thus in place of “the situation-type of Super
‘man's being an excraterresiial” Twill wai
“(Superman is an extraterrestrial!’ If We use a
colon for “s such tha’, then 252 firs approxima-
tion, (8) becomes
(9s) [Superman is an extraterrestrial]: Lois
Delieves her so-labeled way of thinking of
ite,
ere‘e" ia variable to mark the binder oft’, and
in the final formula, (9) below, it will simply
replace the pronoun,
‘Next, 25 mentioned a few sentences back, dif
{erent interpretations of (Ba) can be obtained by
varying the extent of the ‘so', so we need some
device for indicating exactly how much of the
articulated term for the STP is in its extent. I
will use angle brackets for this purpose. Comic
‘ated attitude attributions might involve more
than one ‘So’, in which case there would be a
reed for variable subscripts om the ‘So's and on
the angle brackets specifying their extents, but in
‘our examples there is only ever one ‘so’. To specify
the extent of the 'so' in (93), therefore, we simply
(05) [Superman is an exraterestsh
Lois believes her sorabeled way of
thinking oF ty
‘with no further variable subscripts. It is exactly the
‘material within angle brackets that isin substitu
tion-resisting position.
Finally although ics nor completely necessary
forthe purposes of this paper, we may standardize
2 regimentation of such phrases 25
(8) Leis believes her solabeled way of
thinking of i
{will not argue the point here, but the weatment of
definite descriptions as restricted quantifiers seems
‘to me co be superior to their treatment as singular
terms (the square bracket notation for STP terms