title: Ascribing Mental Qualities to Machines
creator: McCarthy, John
subject: Artificial Intelligence
description: 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. 
date: 1979-07
type: Preprint
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/postscript
identifier: http://cogprints.org/416/2/ascribing.ps
identifier:   McCarthy, John  (1979) Ascribing Mental Qualities to Machines.  [Preprint]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/416/