 The truth condition of a belief, Papineau tells us, can (roughly) be equated with “that condition which guarantees that actions based on that belief will satisfy the desires it is acting in concert with” (1993, 70). Suppose that I have the desire to get food (which is, on Papineau’s view, a desire with the function of bringing it about that I get food), and this desire collaborates with a certain belief B to cause me to go and look in the fridge. On Papineau’s view, it seems that we can say that B has the content that there is food in the fridge, because there being food in the fridge is the condition that guarantees that my desire to get food will be satisfied by the action I am performing.