 In this way Ernie should attribute the same set of possible worlds (intensions) to Maxi’s sentence ‘There are seven objects in your bag’ as he associates with his own sentence ‘There are three objects in my bag’ and Ernie should interpret Maxi as uttering a truth in so doing. Ernie and Maxi are asserting the very same proposition but are using different words to express it. They are, as a result, simply talking past each other. 