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In Attitude Problems, I gave an account of opacity in the complement of intensional transitive verbs that combined neo-Davidsonian event-semantics with a hidden-indexical account of substitution failure. In this paper, I extend the account to clausal verbs.
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Forbes, G. Intensional verbs in event semantics. Synthese 176, 227–242 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-009-9491-2
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