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Cover -- Objects And Attitudes -- Copyright -- Contents -- Sources And Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Problems For Propositions And Issues For The Semantics Of Modals: A New Approach To The Semantics Of Attitude Reports And Modal Sentences -- The Ontology Of Attitudinal And Modal Objects In The Context Of Descriptive Metaphysics -- Concurrences With Recent Research In Philosophy And Linguistics -- Responses To Recent Challenges To The Notion Of A Proposition -- Propositions And Their Problems -- The Standard View Of Propositional Attitude Reports And Its Motivations Conceptual For Propositions -- Empirical Problems For The Relational Analysis Of Attitude Reports -- Cognitive Propositions And Their Problems -- Attitudinal-objects Semantics -- The Semantics Of Attitude Reports Based On Attitudinal Objects -- Attitudinal-objects Semantics And The Conceptual Problems For Propositions -- Attitudinal Objects And Special Quantifiers -- Attitudinal-objects Semantics For Specificational Sentences -- The Semantics Of Modals With Modal Objects -- The Semantics Of Attitudinal Nouns -- A Davidsonian Event-based Alternative Semantics Of Attitude Reports? The Question Of The Priority Of Attitudinal Objects And The Corresponding Act -- Summary -- 2. The Ontology Of Attitudinal And Modal Objects -- The Ontology Of Satisfiable Objects -- Types Of Attitudinal Objects -- The Role Of Attitudinal Objects In Thought And Communication -- Kinds Of Attitudinal Objects -- Modal Objects -- Characteristic Properties Of Attitudinal And Modal Objects -- Properties Of Concreteness And Endurance -- Content-related Properties -- Satisfaction Predicates Of Attitudinal And Modal Objects -- Truth Predicates -- Predicates Of Fulfillment And Acceptance Predicates Of Realization -- Similarity Relations Based On Sameness Of Content -- Part Structure Based On Partial Content Only -- The Source And Scope Of Satisfaction Conditions For Attitudinal And Modal Objects -- Attitudinal And Modal Objects And The S