Sentence examples for directed towards something from inspiring English sources

Mally's teacher Meinong followed Brentano in concluding that the distinctive and defining feature of intentional mental acts is that they are always directed towards something.

Indeed, willing always presupposes a meaning act in the sense that, when one wants something, one is directed towards something that is not (yet) present.

This possibility is explicitly embraced in the Philebus: just as believing is still belief even if it is not directed towards anything that was, is, or will be, so too pleasure is still pleasure, fear fear, anger anger and so on, even if they are directed towards something that never was, is, or will be (40c-e).

In short, Khatchadourian (1978) says that a dance consists of movements that are not actions because they are not intentional in the traditional sense, that of being directed towards making something change in the real world rather than in the imagined world of a theatrical performance.

What if we harnessed the power of shopping, and directed it towards something good?

Truthfully, on social media, especially when it's something directed towards me, I ignore it.

I internalized that pain, the hate that was directed towards me for being something different than the heteronormative status quo.

2) Sometimes, a child may say something directed towards a disabled person that embarrasses a parent, but it's important to not act irrationally.

Friday's incidents are just the latest in a long history of verbal abuse and threats of physical violence, murder and rape directed towards female reporters -- something that the Guardian, BBC News and Slate have all written about in recent years.

She thought something was directed towards her.

But this self-experience [Selbsterfahrung] is like every experience [Erfahrung], and in particular every perception, a mere directing myself towards something that was already there for me, that was already conscious, but not thematically experienced, not noticed" (Husserl 1973b, 492 493).