 Objective versus subjective  There are a number of cases, however, in which the speaker’s beliefs, even if shared by everyone in the conversation, do not seem to determine content. Suppose, for example, that Elwood’s hero worship of John Searle has reached such a point that he now takes himself to be John Searle. He introduces himself to the new class of Stanford graduate students by saying, “I’m John Searle, from across the Bay.” It seems that even if he and everyone in the conversation believes he is Searle, what he has said is the falsehood that Elwood is John Searle. Or, suppose a group of golfers is standing on the small portion of the Stanford golf course that juts into San Mateo County, but none of them realize it. “The county seat of this county is San Jose,” one of them says, for some reason or other. He believes he has informed them of the truth that the county seat of Santa Clara County is San Jose, and in fact the other members of the foursome learn this fact from what he says. Nevertheless, many would argue, what he said was false, and only fortuitous ignorance led his partners to learn a truth from the falsehood he uttered.