Categories Quote by Wilfrid Sellars

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

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

— John Searle

“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

An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.

— G. E. M. Anscombe

When words do not enter as factors into a shared situation, either overtly or imaginatively, they operate as pure physical stimuli, not as having…

— John Dewey

“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

...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

“Earlier fundamental work of Whitehead, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap, Whorf, etc., as well as my own attempt to use this earlier thinking as an epistemological…

— Gregory Bateson

Words do not express thoughts nor do they express that which is real. Instead they distract. Believe in acts rather than words.

— Senora Roy

First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor…

— William of Ockham

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no…

— Seneca the Younger