| Logics of Mental Attitudes in AI (1994) | |||||||||||||||||
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| . There has been a growing interest in AI in formal, qualitative models of various mental attitudes, starting with the well-researched concepts of knowledge and belief, and continuing with more exotic notions such as goals and intentions. In this initial survey we take stock of the work carried out so far in this field, including the motivation for this line of research, the mental attitudes considered, those not, the (primarily logical) tools used, and some of the outstanding problems. 1 Introduction In this paper we review work on formal, qualitative, explicit models of mental attitudes, as studied in recent years in AI. By `mental attitudes' we mean notions such as knowledge, belief, desires, goals, and so on -- those notions, usually attributed to humans, which are generally associated with people's mental life. We use the term `mental state' to denote the collection of all mental attitudes of an agent. Why does AI care about theories of mental state? To start with, to the extent ... | |||||||||||||||||
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