A further objection concerns reports made in doubt or without any settled belief. Does the lack of assent change the nature of the declarative content itself?
The source’s discussion distinguishes understanding a proposition, presenting it as a report, and holding the belief it expresses. The majority account evaluates the content independently of the speaker’s psychological condition; al-Jāḥiẓ builds that condition into the definitions. These are alternative criteria, not merely different names for the same facts.