He and two actor friends (Juri Henley-Cohn and Havilah Brewster) come up with a convoluted plan to get the thing produced that involves attributing the work to a fake writer-actor (the Avi of the title).
Each of these other theses involves attributing plurality to a different aspect of the analysandum (explanandum, definiendum, etc).
The state-of-the art approaches to sentiment analysis/detection involves attributing a polarity to a textual message.
The second and third capacities are clearly related: explaining the behavior of humans in terms of their mental states involves attributing mental states to them.
First, the idea that explaining language use involves attributing knowledge to speakers flouted the prevailing behaviorist view that talking about mental states was unscientific because mental states are unobservable.
In their book, The Power of Full Engagement, Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz write: "Projection is an especially insidious defense against facing the truth...It involves attributing one's own unacknowledged impulses to others.
Success in this enterprise would necessarily involve attributing beliefs and desires to the being in question, in light of which its utterances make sense.
Moral judgments are in fact, on this sort of account, the expression of belief and they do involve attributing properties to actions, institutions and characters (though the account holds that the true nature of the property being attributed is something that might come as a surprise to some).
If, though, to think something good is different than thinking it pleasant, such thoughts (Moore assumed) must involve attributing distinct properties.
Note that the "interactor question" does not involve attributing adaptations or benefits to the interactors, or indeed, to any candidate unit of selection.
