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Beliefs and Goals have a crucial “quantitative” dimension or “value/strength”: the “doxastic value” of beliefs, and the “motivational value” of Goals. These “values” and “degrees” play a fundamental role in the cognitive processing: believing or not, preferring and choosing, suffering, expecting, trusting, feeling.
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Castelfranchi, C. (2013). Mind in Degrees. In: Baldoni, M., Baroglio, C., Boella, G., Micalizio, R. (eds) AI*IA 2013: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI*IA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8249. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03524-6_2
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