intentionality

plural intentionalities

1. countableuncountableThe state or quality of being intentional.
2. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe 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.

   The naturalization of intentionality is an ongoing project in philosophy.

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   As a preliminary formulation we might say: Intentionality is that property of many mental states and events by which they are directed at or about or of objects and states of affairs in the world.

   1983, John R. Searle, Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind, page 1

   For phenomenology, the central feature of experience is a structure called "intentionality," which correlates all things experienced with the mode of experience to which the experience is referenced.

   1986, Don Ihde, Experimental Phenomenology: An Introduction, page 23

   Causality in the Intentionality Model is in the agency of the child. It is the child who perceives, who apprehends, who constructs the intentional state, who acts to express it, and who interprets what others do (including what they say) to construct a new intentional state.

   2001, Lois Bloom, Erin Tinker, Ellin Kofsky Scholnick, The Intentionality Model and Language Acquisition, page 10