# fara-specifyingdesires **Opening (not a real abstract):** Princeton University Draft version 5.0, January 12, 2012 Forthcoming in NOÛS Fiona says that she wants to catch a fish; Charlotte says that she wants to have some champagne. Neither has expressed with full specificity what it is that she wants. Fiona wants to catch a fish that’s big enough to make a meal; a minnow will not do. Charlotte wants enough champagne to feel it go to her head; a thimbleful will not do. Nevertheless, each speaks truly. How is that? I call this “the problem of underspecification.” The problem is to explain how these desire reports can be true even though neither subject has a desire with a content that’s specified precisely by her embedded clause. These embedded clauses underspecify what it is that each wants. (1) Fiona wants to catch a fish; (2) Charlotte wants to have some champagne. **Authors:** [[Delia Graff Fara]]