Hard cases of third readings in terms of the Standard Solution

Abstract

Schwager (2011) and Sudo (2014) argued that there are cases of the so-called third
readings of attitude reports, initially discovered by Fodor (1970), that cannot be accounted for
in terms of a theory of indexed world variables (Percus, 2000), which is often referred to as
the Standard Solution. More complicated alternatives to the Standard Solution have been
recently formulated in the literature in a number of papers. We argue that all the seemingly
problematic cases can be naturally accounted for in terms of the Standard Solution, if we take
into account the existence of previously unrecognized elided material in these reports.
Keywords: attitude reports, non-specific transparent, hard cases, Standard Solution.