intentionality
IPA: ɪntˈɛnʃʌnˈæɫɪti
noun
- The quality of being intentional.
- (philosophy) The characteristic of a mental state whereby it is about something, which relates to mental states in an analogous way as meaning relates to a word.
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Examples of "intentionality" in Sentences
- If not, then intentionality is ontologically irreducible and hence not naturalistically explained.
- The eliminativist believes that intentionality is ontologically reducible to the non-intentional without remainder.
- You seem to be missing the full implications of the statement "intentionality is not in the objects or their actions".
- The "aboutness" and "goal-directedness" of eukaryotic cells and how it relates to nano-intentionality is defined as follows (p14):
- Daniel Smith: You seem to be missing the full implications of the statement "intentionality is not in the objects or their actions".
- Second, if intentionality is not in the object you are observing, it does not follow that the source could not be some other material object.
- From my perspective, intentionality is a useful concept, in fact an indispensably useful concept, so from a pragmatic standpoint it is as real as anything else.
- You yourself just told us that intentionality is not in the objects or their actions, but you seem to be missing the fact that that means we can only observe intentionality by observing the designer.
- Don P: You yourself just told us that intentionality is not in the objects or their actions, but you seem to be missing the fact that that means we can only observe intentionality by observing the designer.
- This argument will appeal to those who think that intentionality is a characteristic of propositions, that there are a lot of propositions, and that intentionality or aboutness is dependent upon mind in such a way that there couldn't be something p about something where p had never been thought of.
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