Quine escapes this sort of problem by taking an attribution of belief to express a relation between the believer and a sentence, understood to be, in the usual case, in the language of the ascriber (not the language of the believer, where the languages differ).
It seems almost trite to say that the experience has brought the three of them closer together: today, they finish one another's sentences, understand one another's need to tell their part of the story, laugh at shared tales of funny moments in intensive care or rehab.
If successful at all, it would work in the same way also for proving the existence of true judgments or true sentences (understood as linguistic entities).
For Frege on the other hand, the differences just listed are crucial, particularly since the consistency of the thoughts expressed by the sentences construed as in (a) above is not implied either by the consistency of the thoughts expressed by those sentences understood as in (b) or by the satisfiability of the relation defined by the sentences understood as in (c).
I'm not going to use it in a sentence, just understand that for the last 6-8 months, every time my daughter has meant to say "Something," she has said something very different.
That proposal from the Miamians also included this sentence: "We understand that you have transferred temporary custody of Elian to his father".
Words are abstractions from sentences, and a sentence is understood holistically "in a flash" (sphoṭa; Bhartṛhari's theory is called sphoṭa-vāda).
When a student confides, Robota converts their spoken complaints into text, then analyzes sentences to understand if any issues expressed require the immediate attention of an adult.
His language skills were simple for his age, but he could talk in sentences and understand everyday speech.
Says Mr Aki on Skype from Tokyo during a break in the class: "In writing it takes a long time to understand one sentence.
