In: From Message to Mind: Directions in Developmental Neurobiology.
Your words give your mind directions on what to do.
Conative states (e.g., motivational states of want, need, and desire), also have propositional content, but they have a world-to-mind direction of fit.
It has a world-to-mind direction of fit.
Unlike beliefs and perceptions, desires and intentions have a world-to-mind direction of fit.
That is to say, whereas beliefs have a "mind-to-world" direction of fit, desires have a "world-to-mind" direction of fit.
The expression is meant to sum up the contrast between cognition and the conative orientation, in which success is defined in terms of the opposite, world-to-mind, direction of fit (Searle 1983).
Perceptions, beliefs, desires and intentions illustrate a basic duality of the intentionality of the mental: the duality between mind-to-world and world-to-mind directions of fit.
A pre-planned route is required, keeping in mind the direction of the trailer, the direction of the towing vehicle, any object in the immediate vicinity of the driving path, and the relative motion between all involved objects.
There is talk of the club living "hand to mouth" with no tactical, never mind strategic, direction of travel.
Cosmologists investigating the structure of the universe do not really mind which direction a telescope is pointing, since the universe is isotropic and homogeneous which is a fancy way of saying that it looks the same in all directions.
