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Artificial believers : the ascription of belief

Title
Artificial believers : the ascription of belief / Afzal Ballim, Yorick Wilks.
Author
Ballim, Afzal.
Publication
Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum, 1991.

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Additional Authors
Wilks, Yorick, 1939-
Description
285 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • ViewGen
  • Belief and doubt > Computer simulation
  • Attribution (Social psychology) > Computer simulation
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • artificial intelligence
  • Computersimulation
  • Glaube
  • Glaubenszweifel
  • Kognitiver Prozess
  • Künstliche Intelligenz
  • Meinung
  • Überzeugung
  • Unsicherheit
  • Vertrauen
  • Doute > Simulation, Méthodes de
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Computersimulation
  • Unsicherheit
  • Vertrauen
Genre/Form
Kongress.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Preliminaries on the nature of belief -- Philosophical theories of belief and languages of thought -- Problems of intensionality -- Problems of relevance -- Peripheral phenomena? Speech acts and metaphor -- Approaches to belief in NLP and linguistics -- Approaches to belief in AI -- Belief Ascription -- Representational structure -- The argument for environments -- Construction of viewpoints -- Limitations to default ascription -- Experiments in belief: ViewGen -- Global issues: Reasoning with viewpoints -- Reasoning with viewpoints -- Environments, intensionality, reference, and speech acts -- Further extensions and speculations -- Metaphor revisited -- Psychology and effort reviewed -- Practical and social matters.
ISBN
  • 0805804536
  • 9780805804539
LCCN
91017539
OCLC
  • ocm23689649
  • 23689649
  • SCSB-1927008
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library