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Quotes from Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind — John Searle

1932–2025 United States

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The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.

Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind (1983)

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.

Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind (1983)

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can’t say it clearly you don’t understand it yourself.

Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind (1983)

It seems to me obvious that infants and many animals that do not in any ordinary sense have a language or perform speech acts nonetheless have Intentional states. Only someone in the grip of a philosophical theory would deny that small babies can literally be said to want milk and that dogs want to be let out or believe that their master is at the door.

Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind (1983)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Searle (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.