TY - GEN
ID - cogprints416
UR - http://cogprints.org/416/
A1 - McCarthy, John
TI - Ascribing Mental Qualities to Machines
Y1 - 1979/07//
N2 - 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.
AV - public
ER -