The popular representations were coupled with other representations, in order to propagate another set of representations, in which a conspiratorial link between jews and lepers was extablished. Coordinated and intentional operations gave a precise direction and an objective to an already present strain. A particular way of framing the social discours leads the people to draw further inferences about causal implications for their inner dreads. False documents and the spreading out of representations about unexistent events are relevant social facts for historians. The historian searches for family resemblances and differences among available texts, groups them by time and space, and looks for the underlying history of their conctact.
New representations can either overlap or conflict with a set of traditional beliefs.
Particular beliefs and ways of framing public representations affect the inferential procedures by which individuals understand social phenomena. Social critics are able to represent a representation as false, provide subjects with new ways of framing the ongoing problems, by introducing alternative models, by overcoming referential indeterminacies, and they offer new understandings. Although mental models are individual mental processes, and cannot be directly shared, an individual's defective model can be expressed and represented in an intermental plane. The process of recursive representation of representations on an intermental plane enables humans to share a higher level perspective and it is essential to human acquisition of knowledge, since it allows humans to doubt and disbelieve. Language, anthropology and cognitive science.