Stich's 'subdoxastic states' and Dennett's intentional stance both demonstrate that attributing belief-like states to animals yields predictively successful explanatory frameworks.

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Attributing: # Attributing Attributing means assigning responsibility, credit, or a cause to someone or something. When you attribute something, you're saying that a particular person, group, or factor is responsible for or connected to an outcome or creation. For example, you might attribute your success to hard work, or attribute a quote to a famous author.
Daniel Dennett(The statement references his specific philosophical framework): A contemporary American philosopher famous for arguing that consciousness and the mind can be fully explained by physical processes in the brain, without needing any mysterious or special mental properties.
Predictively successful explanatory frameworks(as used in philosophy of science and philosophy of mind): Systems of explanation that actually work well at predicting and understanding behavior, even if we're not totally sure they capture the deepest truth.
Stephen Stich(as a key figure in philosophy of mind): A contemporary philosopher who studies how the mind works and questions whether we should think of animal minds as having belief-like states.

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