Deference and Semantics of Belief Reports II: Reporting Deferential Beliefs

In this paper I show how to semantically treat the cases in which a speaker reports the deferential beliefs of an agent. In this sense, I will adopt the semantic theory of belief reports put forth by Crimmins and Perry. After presenting their conceptual framework, I will consider that the deferential notions are the unarticulated constituents of the semantic content of an utterance by means of which we report a deferential belief. Therefore, in reporting a deferential belief, the speaker tacitly refers to the deferential items involved in the reported belief. This is the second part of a two-part paper.