@misc{cogprints416,
month = {July},
title = {Ascribing Mental Qualities to Machines},
author = {John McCarthy},
year = {1979},
url = {http://cogprints.org/416/},
abstract = {Ascribing mental qualities like beliefs, intentions and wants to a machine is sometimes correct if done conservatively and is sometimes necessary to express what is known about its state. We propose some new definitional tools for this: definitions relative to an approximate theory and second order structural definitions. }
}