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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

13592	Beliefs can be ascribed to machines [Quine]
	Full Idea: Beliefs have been ascribed to machines, in support of a mechanistic philosophy, and I share this attitude.
	From: Willard Quine (Intensions Revisited [1977], p.123)
	A reaction: [He cites Raymond Nelson] One suspects that this is Quine's latent behaviourism speaking. It strikes me as a crass misuse of 'belief' to ascribe it to a simple machine like a thermostat.