Homework 5 was prepared in a bit of a rush, and there are a couple of oddities about question #2.<\/p>\n
If you read the directions carefully, you’ll see that it is anticipated that the sentences in the problem might have more than one interpretation, based on the de re<\/em>\/de dicto<\/em> distinction. However, when the context is taken into account, most of them are not really ambiguous, but must be either one or the other. Not all, but most.<\/p>\n Writing a paraphrase for a de dicto<\/em> reading is a challenge, because it’s almost always possible to still come away with a de re<\/em> interpretation. One way to do this relatively effectively is to use some…or other<\/em>, as in Some student or other<\/em>.<\/p>\n Also, at the end of the context for (3), it was supposed to read “She thinks he will win”, but I left out “thinks”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Homework 5 was prepared in a bit of a rush, and there are a couple of oddities about question #2. If you read the directions carefully, you’ll see that it is anticipated that the sentences in the problem might have more than one interpretation, based on the de re\/de dicto distinction. However, when the context …<\/p>\n