Quote: "There is someone whom Raliph believes is a spy" is a triadic relation between Ralph, spyhood, and the someone

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Beginning with a single sense of belief … let us think of this at first as … Now intensions named thus by "that"-clauses, without free … [e.g., (14) Ralph believes that Ortcutt is a spy]. In addition I shall (for the moment) recognize intensions of … in which it occurs free; thus z(z is … [e.g., (15) Ralph believes z(z is a spy) of Ortcutt]. Similarly we may specify intensions of higher degrees by prefixing … For reasons which will appear, [(15)] is to … a spy), but rather as an irreducibly triadic …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: attributes are intensions of a single free variable; e.g., spyhood is z(z is a spy)

Quote: propositions are "that"-clauses without free variables; e.g., "Ralph believes that Ortcutt is a spy"

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