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Do all mental states exhibit intentionality?
Do sensations (e.g., pains), feelings, emotions (e.g., depression) all exhibit intentionality?
According to the third thesis, intentionality is the mark of the mental: all and only mental states exhibit intentionality.
Brentano influentially claimed that all mental phenomena exhibit intentionality and thus act/object or attitude/content structure (Jacob 2003).
By contrast, intentionality is a pervasive feature of many different mental states: beliefs, hopes, judgments, intentions, love and hatred all exhibit intentionality.
The explanation for why thoughts are about something, exhibit intentionality, or represent is that the form of the object thought about is in the mind of the thinker.
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So the question is: does any non-mental thing exhibit 'original' intentionality?
These units of consciousness he labels intentional acts or intentional experiences, since they always represent something as something thus exhibiting what Brentano called intentionality.
They do not reject Brentano's second thesis on the grounds that intentionality can be exhibited by some non-mental things.
According to the first thesis, it is constitutive of the phenomenon of intentionality, as it is exhibited by mental states such as loving, hating, desiring, believing, judging, perceiving, hoping and many others, that these mental states are directed towards things different from themselves.
This streaming is not amorphous but is organized into a field of consciousness (see [ 61] for an accessible account) which exhibits a certain structure, involving temporality, intentionality, embodiment, and self-awareness.
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