1 The intentional stance and intentional systems In Brainstorms Dennett (1981) proposes the following six conditions, each of which is necessary, of`personhood'. Although Dennett is concerned with`moral personhood', rather than personhood as such, he believes that metaphysical personhood is a necessary condition of moral personhood. The six conditions are: rationality, intentionality, stance, r...

The paper proposes a stylistic link between the earliest wall paintings in Church of Ascension at Mileseva Monastery, previously usually attributed to Thessalonian painters, and several icons from St. Catherine?s monastery on Mount Athos. Based their visual similarity, it questions earlier attributions those Sinai icons, rejecting view that they were painted by Western Crusader artists. Further...

Successful communication and collaboration between humans and intelligent agents of the future will require a robust ability to algorithmically infer the subjective mental states of the human participants. As in human to human interaction, the central concerns of plans, goals, emotions, and beliefs of another must inferred from a mix of explicit and implicit evidence in language, along with con...

Ethnicity belongs to the most important types of differentiation in Laos. Among the means to establish such differences is the ascription of bodies of knowledge to various ethnicities. Ritual healing knowledge is often associated with the foreign and the culturally different. The attribution of differentiated categories of foreignness thus supports the emergence and reproduction of ethnic diffe...

We propose a framework for modelling situated resource-bounded agents. The framework is based on an objective ascription of intentional modalities and can be easily tailored to the system we want to model and the properties we wish to specify. As an elaboration of the framework, we introduce a logic, OBA, for describing the observations, beliefs, intentions and actions of simple agents, and sho...

David Lewis’s primary contribution to the theory of knowledge is his account of knowledge ascription, which integrates an elegant version of relevant alternatives theory with a detailed version of contextualism. His account is prefigured in his discussion of accommodation in “Scorekeeping in a Language Game” (1979), and forms the central topic of his “Elusive Knowledge” (1996). I will review hi...

The main goal of the work presented here is the construction of fully compositional representation of nominal anaphora in discourse. The proposed representation does not depend on the remote ascription (done outside the formal representation) of syntactic indexes, identifying anaphoric links. A formal language, based on dynamic semantics paradigm and being a variant of many-sorted type logic, i...

We report results of an investigation into the proficiency of cholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.8) phenotying, assessed in 13 laboratories between 1983 and 1986. Thirty-two specimens of serum were distributed for analysis: two, each in duplicate, from the eight genotypes that can be recognized by differential enzyme inhibitor numbers. The accuracy of genotype ascription was markedly improved over that o...