Remark: For Gillon, each choice of covering determines a specific interpretation of the sentence. The sentence is thus many-ways ambiguous. Schwarzschild (1996) offers a detailed defense for a similar position in the case of plurals (see also Champollion 2017). But the view also has opponents, like Lasersohn (1995). Among the alternatives, one could propose that a sentence of the form The M P is true just in case there exists a covering C of [M] such that C ⊆ [P]. The sentence wouldn’t be ambiguous but indeterminate with respect to coverings. A problem is that this wouldn’t predict the distributive / collective ambiguity, which does seem real (see Gillon 1992 for evidence).