Ultra-liberal attitude reports and inference patterns. Results of a survey experiment

Ann believes every vegan should take a B12 supplement. Bob says to his vegan friend Carol, whom Ann has never heard of or met in any way: “Ann believes you should take a B12 supplement.” What's striking about Bob's utterance is that it sounds like a natural thing to say in context, even though it does not accurately capture Ann's state of mind (after all, Carol doesn't even know Carol exists). Indeed, Bob's utterance seems to be based on an inference that takes both his and Carol's beliefs as premises. Let's call such belief reports "revisionist." The present study investigates whether the inference pattern influences involved in revision influences ordinary English speakers' truth-value judgments about revisionist belief reports.