The aboutness is its intentionality? — Shawn
'In philosophy, intentionality is the power of minds and mental states to be about, to represent, or to stand for, things, properties and states of affairs. — Wayfarer
What do you think phenomenologically is aboutness of an object?
The aboutness is its intentionality? — Shawn
I'm assuming much of our mental ruminations may not be about anything. That is there is no "directedness" between speech fragments and any object. — Manuel
Then the question would be where does intentionality not arise in our mental life for Husserl? — Manuel
Ah. Then the question would be where does intentionality not arise in our mental life for Husserl? — Manuel
A walking moose in the woods doesn't hit the tree and bounce from it to some direction, but he/she experiences the visual tree as an "obstacle" and accordingly orients itself. Is there some kind of "instinctual intentionality" involved even here, in this animal's behavior? — waarala
It comes from Franz Brentano, who was one of Husserl's professors and a key source for later phenomenology. 'In philosophy, intentionality is the power of minds and mental states to be about, to represent, or to stand for, things, properties and states of affairs. To say of an individual’s mental states that they have intentionality is to say that they are mental representations or that they have contents.' It develops from there into a major topic in phenomenology and philosophy generally. — Wayfarer
If so, what about photography? — TheMadFool
'In philosophy, intentionality is the power of minds and mental states to be about, to represent, or to stand for, things, properties and states of affairs. To say of an individual’s mental states that they have intentionality is to say that they are mental representations or that they have contents.' It develops from there into a major topic in phenomenology and philosophy generally. — Wayfarer
Intentionality is the aspect of the mind that causes other mental states and body states. The will to remember something brings that memory into consciousness. — Harry Hindu
This thread topic is about "aboutness" and not about intention (or "intentionality").
— 180 Proof
— Wheatley
Joshs
If birds call out a warning sound related to the presence of a hawk, do we assume the aboutness if it shows that the birds are thinking? Or should we first establish that they can think, and then away there is aboutness? — frank
Then it should be simple enough for you to provide an example of aboutness and intentionality that does not include a causal relationship. In talking about intentionality or aboutness you are basically talking about causes and their effects.I imagine your description of intentionality is accurate for certain approaches in philosophy. In phenomenology, however, intentionality and aboutness are quite different from a cause-effect structure. — Joshs
This is just another way of saying consciousness is composed of information.Intentionality has to do with the directedness or of-ness or aboutness of consciousness — Joshs
Intentionality has to do with the directedness or of-ness or aboutness of consciousness
— Joshs
This is just another way of saying consciousness is composed of information — Harry Hindu
Then it should be simple enough for you to provide an example of aboutness and intentionality that does not include a causal relationship. In talking about intentionality or aboutness you are basically talking about causes and their effects.
Intentions always precede the action that is intended.
To say that something is about aomething else is to say that something was caused by something else, or else how would it be about it? How would it contain information about something else? — Harry Hindu
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