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intentionality en · NOUN

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Etymology

Etymology tree English intentional Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English intentionality From intentional + -ity.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The state or quality of being intentional.
2. (countable, uncountable) The 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.
   • 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:
   • The naturalization of intentionality is an ongoing project in philosophy.
   • 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:

Forms

Antonyms

unintentionality

Translations (11)

fi intentionaalisuus ((phil.) characteristic ...; ability to refer to sth.) · de Intentionalität ((phil.) characteristic ...; ability to refer to sth.) · it intenzionalità ((phil.) characteristic ...; ability to refer to sth.) · es intencionalidad ((phil.) characteristic ...; ability to refer to sth.) · fr intentionnalité ((phil.) characteristic ...; ability to refer to sth.) · pl intencjonalność ((phil.) characteristic ...; ability to refer to sth.) · ja 作為 ((phil.) characteristic ...; ability to refer to sth.) · ca intencionalitat ((phil.) characteristic ...; ability to refer to sth.) · ru целенапра́вленность ((phil.) characteristic ...; ability to refer to sth.) · ru преднаме́ренность ((phil.) characteristic ...; ability to refer to sth.) · pt intencionalidade ((phil.) characteristic ...; ability to refer to sth.)