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| Intentionality: intentionality is the ability of people and higher animals to relate to and react to circumstances such as things and states. Concepts, words, and sentences also refer to something but have no intentionality. This linguistic relating-to is called reference instead._____________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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P. Geach on Intentionality - Dictionary of Arguments
I 132 Intentionality/Geach: three-digit relation: person-verb-object. E.g. For a z, z is a man and I saw z in Oxford under the aspect: "ran past". GeachVsBuridan: "ratio", "appeals to", "regard": here there are no identity conditions. >Identity conditions. There is no need for the subject to be perceived under this aspect. >Aspects. E.g. Buridan: Socrates knows that some stars are above the horizon." Geach: Suppose, Socrates is in the jungle, from which does he know? Buridan: "of those who are it". GeachVs: only of "some", not e.g. from the constellation Aries (false aspect). Incorrect complex expression: "Socrates, knows that Aries is over ..." GeachVsBuridan: Buridan exploits here the peculiarity of "know" (from knowledge follows truth). >Knowledge, >Truth, >Knowledge paradoxes. I 137 Intentional Identity/Intentionality/Geach: E.g. 1. "There is a poet whom Smith and Brown admire" - or 2. "Smith and Brown admire both the same poet" The latter would also be true if it was a high-stacker. "Under the description"/Aspect: Problem: E.g. Smith dreamed of the world's fattest woman, who is actually red-haired, but in the dream she was bald. The medieval problems are still not solved today. de dicto, >de re, >Proposition, >Intensional objects, >Objects of thought, >Objects of belief, >Mental objects, >Medieval philosophy._____________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. |
Gea I P.T. Geach Logic Matters Oxford 1972 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19