The content is what it is that is believed, desired, hoped for etc.
Content is what is said, asserted, thought, believed, desired, hoped for, etc. Mental content is the content had by mental states and processes.
We don't believe desire is a reliable guide in life.
These confusions invariably come about through misunderstandings of the complicated ways in which terms with philosophical import such as know, believe, desire, intend, and think are used in everyday life.
Since we normally do believe, desire, and intend what we resolve to believe, desire, and do, we can therefore accurately self-ascribe those attitudes.
One may hold that people believe, desire, and intend, but deny that there are mental states, such as beliefs, desires, and intentions.
Moran argues that normally when we are prompted to think about what we believe, desire, or intend (and he limits his account primarily to these three mental states), we reflect on the (outward) phenomena in question and make up our minds about what to believe, desire, or do.
Shendarkar et al. [6] presents a work that is also based on BSI (believe, desire, intent) agents – those agents however are trained in a virtual reality environment thereby giving greater flexibility to the modeling.
On the normative account, we have public justification for some arrangement when what each party ideally would believe, desire, and value gives her reason to consent to the implementation of that arrangement.
Though there are varying accounts of group belief, generally speaking, a group can be said to believe, desire, value or the like just in case its members "jointly commit" to these things as a body (Gilbert 2005).
