Mind de re
... VER establishes a link to a verification event in which agent X has established the truth of p in the actual world, while ACT renders the proposition pre-verified, that is, open to verification or falsification. Standard accounts of the de re versus de dicto distinction maintain that, in contexts of belief and desire, de re attitudes involve ontological commitments to the existence of objects in the actual world. Within a Davidsonian framework, events are treated as spatiotemporal particulars. Accordingly,...
