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Contemporary discussions of the nature of intentionality are an integral part of discussions of the nature of minds: what are minds and what is it to have a mind?
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Discussion of the connection between phenomenal consciousness and intentionality; by Charles Siewert. ... To clarify further the disputes about consciousness and their links to questions about its relation to intentionality, we need to get an initial grasp of the relevant way the terms ‘intentionality’ and...
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Daniel C. Dennett and John Haugeland Intentionality is aboutness. Some things are about other things: a belief can be about icebergs, but an iceberg is not about anything; an idea can be about the number 7, but the number 7 is not about anything;
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The doctrine of original intentionality is the claim that whereas some of our artifacts may have intentionality derived from us, we have original (or intrinsic) intentionality, utterly underived. Aristotle said that God is the Unmoved Mover, and this doctrine announces that we are Unmeant Meaners.
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Intentionality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term intentionality was introduced by Jeremy Bentham as a principle of utility in his doctrine of consciousness for the purpose of distinguishing acts that are intentional and acts that are not ...
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For example, the sentence 'Cats are animals' is about cats (and about animals), this article is about intentionality, Emanuel Leutze's most famous painting is about Washington's crossing of the Delaware, lanterns hung in Boston's North Church were about the British, and a map of Boston is about Boston.
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Dooyeweerd’s view of intentionality, and of the Gegenstand-relation generally, have been seen as connected with his acknowledged dependence on Husserl’s phenomenology (NC I, v). For Husserl, intentionality is related to his idea of epoché, which is an attempt to get at the "things themselves." But...
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That would lead directly to a considerable difficulty in the idea of internal intentionality. For that-clauses capture references, and the references of our outwardly directed thoughts are -- according to the most believable theories 1 -- determined by external relations.
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