Quantifying In from a Fregean Perspective

This is the reading where the quantifier is naturally understood as taking wide scope relative to the attitude verb and as binding a variable within the scope of the attitude verb. This reading is usually called the de re reading. In this essay, I am interested in addressing the question: what should the semantic analysis of this kind of reading look like from a Fregean perspective—a perspective according to which attitude states are generally relations to structured Fregean thoughts, themselves composed of senses? The question was broached by Kaplan (1968), who sketched some natural ideas about the target truth-conditions for such ascriptions. He did not address the issue of how his broadly Fregean truth-conditions