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Intention: the will to commit an act, as opposed to a random occurrence of such an event. See also motives, causation, will._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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St. Schiffer on Intentions - Dictionary of Arguments
I 156 Meaning/intentionality/Schiffer: when people have no intentions or no beliefs, symbols and sounds have no meaning, or any semantic properties. >Speaker intention, >Speaker meaning, >Utterer's meaning, >Utterance meaning, >Intentionality. Quine pro Brentano/Schiffer: you cannot break out of the intentional vocabulary - but it does not belong to the canonical schema. >Canonicalness/Quine._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Schi I St. Schiffer Remnants of Meaning Cambridge 1987 |