intentionalityn.
/ɪnˌtɛnʃəˈnalɪti/ The quality or fact of being intentional.
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the mind > will > intention > [noun] > fact of being intended
advisementa1398
intentionality1611
studiedness1656
propenseness1672
intendedness1800
designedness1801
designfulness1867
wilfulness1876
directedness1922
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Intentionalita, intentionalitie.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. iv. 12 Intentionality..and other insignificant words of the School.
1780 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. (1789) vii. §6 In every transaction..which is examined with a view to punishment there are four articles to be considered..3. the intentionality that may have accompanied it.
1823 ‘G. Smith’ Not Paul, but Jesus 229 Perfect consciousness, fixed intentionality, predetermined perseverance.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 180 Observe the consciousness and the intentionality of his wit.
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b. Philosophy (esp. Phenomenol.). [ < German Intentionalität (E. Husserl Jahrb. f. Philos. u. Phänomenol. Forsch. (1922) I. ii. ii. 65).] The distinguishing property of mental phenomena of being necessarily directed upon an object, whether real or imaginary. Cf. intentional adj. and n. Additions b.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > empiricism > [noun] > phenomenology > elements of
intentionality1931
intentional object1931
epoché1940
1931 W. R. B. Gibson tr. E. Husserl Ideas ii. ii. 120 Not every real phase of the concrete unity of an intentional experience has itself the basic character of intentionality.
1958 R. Tagiuri & L. Petrullo Person Perception & Impersonal Behaviour p. x We propose using the term person perception whenever the perceiver regards the object as having the potential of representation and intentionality.
1967 A. MacIntyre in Encycl. Philos. III. 147/1 The key themes [of existentialism] are the individual and systems; intentionality; being and absurdity; [etc.].
1974 G. L. Breckon tr. de Muralt's Idea of Phenomenol. §52. 328 The pure ego is therefore the subject of transcendental constitution, the ego pole of intentionality, the centre and point of departure of every intentional function.
1981 R. Hayman Kafka (1983) iv. 35 The assumption that all consciousness must be consciousness of something is the simple basis for Brentano's doctrine of intentionality as defining the essence of consciousness.
1991 Flash Art Jan.–Feb. 86/3 It also affords an escape route from that cartesian-Hegelesque metaphysics of subjectivity and intentionality which..is a thread which runs through so much contemporary French philosophy.
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