The intentional stance is a useful behavioral strategy by which humans assume that others have minds like their own.

Other terms have been used for the same concept, like intentional stance and social cognition.

The intentional stance is an epistemic position taken up in response to an unthinkable other.

I tell you, the only viable analytical mode is the intentional stance.

Most abstract is the intentional stance, which is at the level of software and minds.

Dennett argued that it is best to understand human beliefs and desires at the level of the intentional stance.

However, there is an important distinction between taking an "intentional stance" toward something and entering a "shared world" with it.

The intentional stance is a detached and functional theory we resort to during interpersonal interactions.

This is related to a philosophical tool known as the intentional stance.

He described empathising to include the ToM, mind reading and taking an intentional stance.