As stated by Sobol-Shikler [12], the term affective state may refer to emotions, attitudes, beliefs, intents, desires, pretending, knowledge and moods.
Theory of Mind: is the ability to attribute mental states beliefs, intents, desires, pretending, knowledge, etc. to oneself and others and to understand that others have beliefs, desires and intentions that are different from one's own (from Wikipedia – Premack, D. G. & Woodruff, G. (1978).
pretend to knowledge and skill that they do not possess, particularly in medicine.
She can get a little angry at people who pretend tea knowledge without the chops to back it up, but she's completely open to anybody who shows a sincere love of tea.
Today bookstores in the US are filled with shabby screeds bearing screaming headlines about Islam and terror, the Arab threat and the Muslim menace, all of them written by political polemicists pretending to knowledge imparted by experts who have supposedly penetrated to the heart of these strange oriental peoples.
And do you have to pretend to a knowledge in and interest of what they're doing.
In others' words "He talks artlessly as a child about affairs of state, and does not pretend to a knowledge of anything of which he is ignorant.
Robinson explains in a later report that "I do not pretend to military knowledge, nor do I claim to be an authority in tactics.
I do not pretend to personal knowledge of Victorian or even Edwardian times, but I did grow up in a city (Indianapolis) of street cars on fixed tracks, a downtown central market and tree and shrubbery-covered college campuses, all of them regularly negotiated with impunity by women.
It is an old American journalistic nostrum that "comment is free and facts are expensive", but US op-ed writers and their television counterparts at least make more effort than in Britain to pretend to first-hand knowledge of whatever they are commenting about.
