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Subject: Re: Natural Languages: They're about the World
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Date: Wed, 10-Jun-87 14:33:59 EDT
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In article <3999@sdcc3.ucsd.EDU>, ma188saa@sdcc3.ucsd.EDU (Steve Bloch) writes:
> I object to equating "real" with "physical".

You are correct to do so.  It's a fault of my use of the English
language, not a philosophical position I hold.  See my recent article
about Gondor in talk.philosophy.misc.

> Would someone be so kind as to post the original definition of
> "intentionality", by Brandon or whatever the name was?

The philosopher's name was Brentano, though his definition is used by
the phenomenologists that followed him (notably Husserl).  The
intentionality of a thought is the name given to its (complex)
"directedness" property.  That is, when I think thoughts those
thoughts seem to be "about" something.

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