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One prominent version of sententialism is Donald Davidson’s paratactic account. Davidson provided a novel approach to the analysis of indirect quotation statements.
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Of course, one may still have concerns about how it is that a brain state may ‘samesay’ an utterance. But this problem is not strictly relevant to the problem of analysing quantified attitude reports, as in such cases there will be no utterance of a content sentence which will need to ‘samesay’ a brain state.
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Parsons, D. (2016). Davidson’s Paratactic Approach. In: Theories of Intensionality . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2484-9_11
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