Description Quote by G. E. M. Anscombe

An object imbued with intent — it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent — it's random, it's…

— John Hockenberry

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

— John Dewey

“Any intentional state only functions, that is, it only determines conditions of satisfaction, against a set of Background abilities, dispositions, and capacities that are…

— John Rogers Searle

Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take…

— John Searle

[T]he categories of intentionality are nothing more nor less than the metalinguistic categories in terms of which we talk epistemically about overt speech as…

— Wilfrid Sellars

The object . . . is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion.

— Francis Galton

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the…

— John Searle

“An object literal is an instance of Object. Think”

— Eric Freeman

“Intentional states function only given a set of Background capacities that do not themselves consist in intentional phenomena. Thus, for example, beliefs, desires, and…

— John Rogers Searle

The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.

— John Searle

...if there is a widely shared concept of intentional action... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that concept runs…

— Alfred Mele

Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.

— Gaston Bachelard