Full Idea
Beliefs have been ascribed to machines, in support of a mechanistic philosophy, and I share this attitude.
Gist of Idea
Beliefs can be ascribed to machines
Source
Willard Quine (Intensions Revisited [1977], p.123)
Book Reference
Quine,Willard: 'Theories and Things' [Harvard 1981], 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.