de dicto
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From Latin dē dictō (“of the word”).
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On the de dicto reading of “Peter believes someone is out to get him”, ‘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. |
de dicto (not comparable)
- (linguistics, philosophy) Taking the utterance in consideration, without having a particular referent in mind.
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linguistics, philosophy: as said