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Thinkers who advocate the principle of intentionality necessarily hold that mental phenomena are directed toward an object. We can take our lead here from one of Franz Brentano’s famous remarks: ‘in presentation, something is presented, in judgement something is affirmed or denied, in love loved, in hate hated, in desire desired, and so on’.1 What is desired is the object of desire.
*Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the Husserl-Archives Conference in Leuven in April 2009 to mark Husserl’s 150th birthday and at a workshop on Intentionality and the Problem of Non-Existence at the Royal Irish Academy which was jointly hosted by the Department of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin and the School of Philosophy University College Dublin in February 2010. I should like to thank Rudolf Bernet, Tim Crane, Josie D’Oro, James Levine, Claudio Majolino , Eduard Marbach, Dermot Moran, William Lyons and Laszlo Tengelyi for their comments.
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Alweiss, L. (2010). Thinking about Non-Existence*. In: Mattens, F., Jacobs, H., Ierna, C. (eds) Philosophy, Phenomenology, Sciences. Phaenomenologica, vol 200. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0071-0_26
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