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Believes Interpretation Person Peter De Assertion Sentence  What

Front In the sentence "Peter believes someone is out to get him."  what is the type of interpretation that that ‘someone’ is specific, picking out some particular individual– that there is some person Peter has in mind, and Peter believes that person is out to get him?
Back de re

de re interpretation is relating to the properties of things mentioned in an assertion or expression, rather than to the assertion or expression itself.

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