Intentional Object

Famous quotes containing the words intentional object, intentional and/or object:

“An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.”
—Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe (b. 1919)

“... thoughts are a “source of intentionality”Mi.e., nothing would be intentional were it not for the fact that thoughts are intentional.”
—Roderick M. Chisholm (b. 1916)

“If the heart beguiles itself in its choice [of a wife], and imagination will give excellencies which are not the portion of flesh and blood:Mwhen the dream is over, and we awake in the morning, it matters little whether ‘tis Rachael or Leah,—be the object what it will, as it must be on the earthly side ... of perfection,—it will fall short of the work of fancy, whose existence is in the clouds.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)