Three Myths of Intentionality Versus Some Medieval Philosophers

International Journal of Philosophical Studies 21 (3):359-376 (2013)
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Abstract

This paper argues that three characteristic modern positions concerning intentionality – namely, (1) that intentionality is ‘the mark of the mental’; (2) that intentionality concerns a specific type of objects having intentional inexistence; and (3) that intentionality somehow defies logic – are just three ‘modern myths’ that medieval philosophers, from whom the modern notion supposedly originated, would definitely reject.

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Gyula Klima
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Theories of cognition in the later Middle Ages.Robert Pasnau - 1997 - New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.
Medieval theories: properties of terms.Stephen Read - 2002 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1:1-13.

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