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tion that its complement clause represents things in the way that Columbus
himself represented them. The speaker makes this reference to Cuba without
at all assuming that Columbus would have referred to Cuba in that way or in
any parallel or analogous way.
Or suppose you and I are among the few people who know that our
acquaintance Jacques is in fact the notorious jewel thief who has been ter-
rorizing Paris' wealthy set, called "Le Chat" in the popular press and by the
gendarmes. We read in the newspaper after a particularly daring but flawed
robbery that police believe "Le Chat dropped the fistful of anchovies as he
or she ran." We say to each other, "The police think Jacques dropped the
anchovies as he ran."
So it seems undeniable that there are transparent positions inside belief
sentences, in which the referring expression does just refer to its bearer,
without any further suggestion about the way in which the subject of the
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