True Beliefs

Famous quotes containing the words true and/or beliefs:

    The true faith discovered was
    When painted panel, statuary,
    Glass-mosaic, window-glass,
    Amended what was told awry
    By some peasant gospeller....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    To a first approximation, the intentional strategy consists of treating the object whose behavior you want to predict as a rational agent with beliefs and desires and other mental states exhibiting what Brentano and others call intentionality.
    Daniel Clement Dennett (b. 1942)