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Hansen, Mikkel B.; Petersen, Esben N.; Poulsen, Arne; Salès-Wuillemin, Edith – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
The third-person belief ascription, "Marie believes that the contract is in the cabinet," may engender two interpretations: (1) It neutrally describes what is on Marie's mind and (2) it offers indirect evidence about reality, committing the speaker to the cabinet as the most likely location. The circumstances that lead to the evidential…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Attribution Theory, Theory of Mind, Experiments