 This problem is more pressing when one moves from indirect speech reports to other propositional attitude reports. For, as Schiffer 1987b has stressed, whereas (16)’s truth plausibly requires the existence of an utterance on Galileo’s part, it is implausible to insist that the truth of (1) requires an actual utterance on Lois’s part. Lois might truly be said to believe that Superman is strong even though she has produced no utterances that samesay the ascriber’s utterance of ‘Superman is strong’. So, let ‘u′’ name the ascriber’s utterance of ‘The earth moves’. If (16) is true, then there exists an utterance u such that Galileo produced u and u′ and u samesay one another. Now let ‘u″’ name the attributer’s utterance of ‘Superman is strong’. The truth of (1) does not entail that there exists an utterance u such that Lois produced u and u″ and u samesay one another. So, even if one can give an adequate account of when two utterances samesay one another without presupposing a common meaning or proposition they are both related to, one’s work in defending the paratactic account as an account of belief sentences (and other propositional attitude reporting sentences) is not complete.