 To explain how Perry’s view addresses difficulties for the Simple Picture, we need a way of talking about belief-states. Perry uses English sentences to talk about belief-states, by indexing belief-states to English sentences with the same character—English sentences displaying the same pattern of dependence of content on context as the belief-states. So the belief-state corresponding to “I am the messy shopper” is the belief-state such that, for any subject x who is in that state, x is thereby belief-related to the proposition that x is the messy shopper.