 A somewhat less extreme example: Suppose I’m in the “my pants are on fire” doxastic state. I want to communicate my plight to you so that you’ll give me a bucket of water, or a fire extinguisher. I don’t want to get you into the “my pants are on fire” state—that won’t enlist your help in my pants-extinguishing project, and it will give you inaccurate beliefs, since your pants (we may suppose) are not on fire. So communicating my self-locating belief via belief transfer will not achieve my communicative goals.