H. P. Grice: 1. Use 'God' as expository device. Imagine creature, to behaviour of which 'think', 'know, 'goal', want, 'purpose' can be applied. But no communication. Goals continuation of self (or of species). Imagine God wishing to improve on such creatures, by enabling them to enlarge their individual worlds and power over them, by equipping them for transmission of beliefs and wants (why such change 'advance; because of" decreased vulnerability to vicissitudes of nature). 2. Mechanisms for such development. Elements in behaviour must in some way 'represent' beliefs and wants (or their objects) or rather states of the world which are specially associated with them.

 1. Use 'God' as expository device. Imagine creature, to behaviour of which 'think', 'know,

'goal', want, 'purpose' can be applied. But no communication. Goals continuation of self (or of species). Imagine God wishing to improve on such creatures, by enabling them to enlarge their individual worlds and power over them, by equipping them for transmission of beliefs and wants (why such change 'advance; because of" decreased vulnerability to vicissitudes of nature).

2. Mechanisms for such development. Elements in behaviour must in some way 'represent' beliefs and wants (or their objects) or rather states of the world which are specially associated with them.