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Believes Peter Person De Dicto Box Exists Sentence 

Front In the sentence "Peter believes someone is out to get him."  what is the type of interpretation that that ‘someone’ is unspecific and Peter suffers a general paranoia; he believes that it is true that a person is out to get him, but does not necessarily have any beliefs about who this person may be. What Peter believes is that the predicate ‘is out to get Peter’ is satisfied. This is the de dicto interpretation.
Back de dicto

{\displaystyle \Box \exists {x}Ax} \Box \exists {x}Ax

Necessarily, some x is such that it is A

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