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I would like to thank Michael Devitt, Allan Gibbard, Jaegwon Kim, Peter Railton and Stephen White for much helpful discussion.

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Mccarthy, T. Representation, intentionality, and quantifiers. Synthese 60, 369–411 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485564

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