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intentionality

noun

Etymology

From intentional + -ity.

  1. borrowed from intentiōnālis
  2. suffixed as intentionality — “intentional + ity”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being intentional.

  2. The characteristic of a mental state whereby it is about something, which relates to…

    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.

    • 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.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for intentionality. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA