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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The state of having or being formed by an intention.
  • noun Philosophy The property of being about or directed toward a subject, as inherent in conscious states, beliefs, or creations of the mind, such as sentences or books.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character or fact of being intentional; designedness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun philosophy The defining characteristic of the mental state of a person when deliberating about an intention.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun expressive of intentions

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Examples

  • Daniel Smith: You seem to be missing the full implications of the statement "intentionality is not in the objects or their actions".

    About: The Progressive Diminishment of Man 2010

  • You yourself just told us that intentionality is not in the objects or their actions, but you seem to be missing the fact that that means we can only observe intentionality by observing the designer.

    About: The Progressive Diminishment of Man 2010

  • Second, if intentionality is not in the object you are observing, it does not follow that the source could not be some other material object.

    About: The Progressive Diminishment of Man 2010

  • The "aboutness" and "goal-directedness" of eukaryotic cells and how it relates to nano-intentionality is defined as follows (p14):

    2009 September - Telic Thoughts 2009

  • Don P: You yourself just told us that intentionality is not in the objects or their actions, but you seem to be missing the fact that that means we can only observe intentionality by observing the designer.

    About: The Progressive Diminishment of Man 2010

  • You seem to be missing the full implications of the statement "intentionality is not in the objects or their actions".

    About: The Progressive Diminishment of Man 2010

  • If not, then intentionality is ontologically irreducible and hence not naturalistically explained.

    Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

  • The eliminativist believes that intentionality is ontologically reducible to the non-intentional without remainder.

    Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

  • This argument will appeal to those who think that intentionality is a characteristic of propositions, that there are a lot of propositions, and that intentionality or aboutness is dependent upon mind in such a way that there couldn't be something p about something where p had never been thought of.

    Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

  • From my perspective, intentionality is a useful concept, in fact an indispensably useful concept, so from a pragmatic standpoint it is as real as anything else.

    Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

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