... thoughts are a "source of intentionality"Mi.e., nothing would be intentional were it not for the fact that thoughts are intent...ional.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrins...ic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[T]he categories of intentionality are nothing more nor less than the metalinguistic categories in terms of which we talk epistemi...cally about overt speech as they appear in the framework of thoughts construed on the model of over speech.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is one of those distinctions which is obvious, without being sharp or clear. It is obvious, and remains obvious, to every norma...l mind, although when we come to analyze it, we may not be able to rule a boundary line. It remains obvious, as the distinction between day and night remains obvious, though, when we begin to analyze that distinction, we come up against such refinements as dusk and twilight. There is more than one way of characterizing the difference. Perception is essentially a passive experience, something that happens to us; thinking is an active one, something that we do. Or if you don't like this distinction, because of refinements such as the "intentionality" which some have detected (rightly, I would say) in perception, or on the other hand because of the passivity of that uncontrolled type of thinking called "reverie," then thoughts are something that comes from within; perceptions something that comes from without.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To a first approximation, the intentional strategy consists of treating the object whose behavior you want to predict as a rationa...l agent with beliefs and desires and other mental states exhibiting what Brentano and others call intentionality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't unders...tand it yourself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seems to me obvious that infants and many animals that do not in any ordinary sense have a language or perform speech acts none...theless have Intentional states. Only someone in the grip of a philosophical theory would deny that small babies can literally be said to want milk and that dogs want to be let out or believe that their master is at the door.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »