"416","Ascribing Mental Qualities to Machines","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. ","http://cogprints.org/416/","McCarthy, John","UNSPECIFIED"," McCarthy, John (1979) Ascribing Mental Qualities to Machines. [Preprint] ","","1979-07"