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Intentionality Primitivism
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Brentano endorsed (conceptual) primitivism about intentionality and the view that intentionality is fully revealed to us in its instantiations. The pros and cons of Brentano’s view that intentionality is a conceptually primitive property of every mental act are discussed. On the one hand, it makes clear why we need to distinguish between the immanent object (intentional correlate) and the external object. But, on the other hand, propositional attitudes turn out to be a major problem for intentionality primitivism. Meinong accepted Brentano’s Thesis as well as the existence of ‘propositional attitudes’ but one cannot defend Brentano’s Thesis by saying that propositional attitudes are directed on objectives or the like. A plausible mark of the mental needs to disentangle being a mental act (process) from having an object.
Title: Intentionality Primitivism
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Brentano endorsed (conceptual) primitivism about intentionality and the view that intentionality is fully revealed to us in its instantiations.
The pros and cons of Brentano’s view that intentionality is a conceptually primitive property of every mental act are discussed.
On the one hand, it makes clear why we need to distinguish between the immanent object (intentional correlate) and the external object.
But, on the other hand, propositional attitudes turn out to be a major problem for intentionality primitivism.
Meinong accepted Brentano’s Thesis as well as the existence of ‘propositional attitudes’ but one cannot defend Brentano’s Thesis by saying that propositional attitudes are directed on objectives or the like.
A plausible mark of the mental needs to disentangle being a mental act (process) from having an object.
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