Intentionality
Intentionality is the ability of a mind to represent or show things, attributes, or states. Simply put, a lot of mental activity is about the outside world, intentionality is here "about". Initially, the word "intentionality" came from scholasticism. Nineteenth-century philosopher, psychologist Franz Brentano in his "empiricist perspective of psychology" (German: Psychologie vom Empirischen Standpunkte, English: Psychology From an Empirical Standpoint) The introduction of contemporary philosophy. Brentano defines it as one of the characteristics of "psychographic phenomena", which is distinguished from "physical phenomena". He uses expressions such as "contact with content", "point to object" or "inner objectivity". ...