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Meaning of intentionality | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. The quality of being intentional.
  2. The characteristic of a mental state whereby it is about something, which relates to mental states in an analogous way as meaning relates to a word.

Equivalents

Bahasa Indonesia kesengajaan
日本語 作為
Svenska avsiktlighet

Examples

“The naturalization of intentionality is an ongoing project in philosophy.”
“As a preliminary formulation we might say: Intentionality is that property of many mental states and events by which they are directed at or about or of objects and states of affairs in the world.”
“For phenomenology, the central feature of experience is a structure called "intentionality," which correlates all things experienced with the mode of experience to which the experience is referenced.”
“Causality in the Intentionality Model is in the agency of the child. It is the child who perceives, who apprehends, who constructs the intentional state, who acts to express it, and who interprets what others do (including what they say) to construct a new intentional state.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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