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The issue of indirect reports is of considerable theoretical interest, for various reasons. It is of interest to linguists and socio-linguists because its sheds light on linguistic social praxis; it is also of interest to philosophers, because clearly the issue of belief reports and the issue of reports of ‘de se’ attitudes can be embedded in the issue of indirect reports (see the papers by Capone, Jaszcolt and Cumming & Sharvit in this book). Since philosophy deals (among other things) with the transmission of knowledge, the chapter on indirect reports is clearly one which has to do with the transmission of knowledge (mediated by what another, possibly reliable person, said) and, therefore, has a philosophical core (the issue of opacity being of utmost interest to philosophers).
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Capone, A., Kiefer, F., Piparo, F.L. (2016). Introduction. In: Capone, A., Kiefer, F., Lo Piparo, F. (eds) Indirect Reports and Pragmatics. Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21395-8_1
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