Using the format of a false belief task (Wimmer & Perner, 1983), we investigated the ability of 88 3- and 4-year-olds to ascribe a previously held true belief to a story protagonist. In an unexpected transfer task, children found true belief ascription as difficult as false belief ascription even though they could answer memory questions about story details. Results are discussed in relation to...

We presented our approach to ascription of intensional ontologies to societies of agents at UKMAS-99. The idea of an intensional ontologies is based on a pragmatic theory of intensionality. The work we presented included a mechanism for retrieving taxonomical relations from the intensional ontologies. Both the process of ascription of ontologies and the retrieval of taxonomical relations were i...

Abstract We argue that some fictional truths are fictionally true by default. also these subject to being undermined. propose the context within which we evaluate what is changes when a possibility was previously ignorable brought attention. cases support model of truth makes conversational dynamics determining in fiction structurally akin knowledge-ascription, as this understood David Lewis’s ...

The analysis of value, value ascription mechanisms, and motivating and influencing factors is useful for decision making processes of both customers and providers. In particular, enterprise modeling can greatly benefit from a proper understanding of value-related notions. Nonetheless, existing value models mainly focus on the value exchange between subjects, disregarding the understanding of “w...

Epistemic limitations concerning prediction and explanation of the behaviour of robots that learn from experience are selectively examined by reference to machine learning methods and computational theories of supervised inductive learning. Moral responsibility and liability ascription problems concerning damages caused by learning robot actions are discussed in the light of these epistemic lim...

In a short article called “Mid-Term Examination: Compare and Contrast” that epitomizes and concludes his book The Intentional Stance, D. C. Dennett (1987) provides a sketch of what he views as an emerging Interpretivist consensus in the philosophy of mind. The gist is that Brentano’s thesis is true (the intentional is irreducible to the physical) and that it follows from the truth of Brentano’s...