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Why must beliefs be reified to be represented?

  • A.Beliefs belong to agents rather than to the world
  • B.A belief relates an agent to a proposition rather than to a fact
  • C.Beliefs are uncertain and require probabilities to be attached
  • D.Beliefs change over time and need a temporal argument

Answer: B

Believing relates an agent to the content of the belief, and that content must be an object in the language before it can be an argument, since a sentence cannot be substituted into an argument position. The belief may also be false, which a fact cannot be. Uncertainty, time and ownership are related complications rather than the reason. That a representation must be able to refer to its own sentences, if it is to describe mental states, is a genuine structural requirement.

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