Church's translation argument demonstrates that replacing a that-clause with a synonymous translation changes the sentence type while preserving the reported belief, proving sentence types are not the objects of belief.

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Church's translation argument(as used in philosophy of language): An argument by philosopher Alonzo Church about a problem that comes up when translating sentences between languages—specifically, whether translations can always keep the same meaning while keeping certain words (like names) unchanged.
Objects of belief(as used in philosophy of mind): The things or ideas that a belief is actually about—what the belief points to or refers to.
sentence type(Used by Carnap and others to analyze belief and saying reports without commitment to propositions.): An abstract linguistic type of which particular inscriptions or utterances are tokens; proposed by some theorists as a more concrete alternative to propositions as the objects of propositional attitudes.
synonymous translation(as used in philosophy of language): Replacing a word or phrase with a different word or phrase that means essentially the same thing, like swapping 'car' for 'automobile.'

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