intentional object

collocation in English

meaningsofintentionalandobject

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intentional
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈten.ʃən.əl/
us
/ɪnˈten.ʃən.əl/
planned ...
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object
noun
uk
/ˈɒb.dʒɪkt/
us
/ˈɑːb.dʒɪkt/
a thing that you can see or touch but that is not usually a living animal, plant, ...
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(Definition ofintentionalandobjectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The content of a judgment is anintentionalobjectbased on norms internal to the act.
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A few points are worth noting: first, imaginative variation reveals invariant properties of theintentionalobject.
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Being the correlate of an act of synthesis on my part, theintentionalobjectis no longer bound to any particular spatio-temporal adumbration.
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An ideal frictionless ground was anintentionalobjectof the physicist's hypothesis, it was material, but the physicist did not believe it was real.
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In worshipping someone, one is not related to a content or proposition but to anintentionalobject(which might not exist).
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Emotions are about something - they have anintentionalobject.
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Every mental phenomenon, every psychological act, has a content, is directed at an object (the "intentionalobject").
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Every mental phenomenon, every psychological act has content, is directed at an object (the "intentionalobject").
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Since there is nointentionalobjectthat causes the negative mood, it has no specific start and stop date.
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However, "ideal" means that essence is theintentionalobjectof the conscience.
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One may see a real chair, but theintentionalobjectof one's intentional state is the mental chair one has in mind.
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Metacognitive states take lower-order cognitive states as their intentional objects.
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The protagonist in a play, the hero of the myth, the child's toy all had meaning as intentional objects.
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On one view, to say that the noema is theintentionalobjectof an act of consciousness is to mean that it quite literally is an object.
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If they do, then the actual infinite is reinstated in the realm of intentional objects.
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A confounding factor is that differences between cognitive states (of the same psychological type) are differences in their intentional objects ("contents").
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The authors tentatively suggest that one might regard numbers and properties and the rest as ' pure concepts, the sort of things that are the intentional objects of thought ' (194).
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Third, since existential questions are irrelevant, it is no longer possible to argue that intentional objects are merely subjective fictions.
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Propositional attitudes can take objects or states of affairs as their intentional objects.
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