2007/07/01 by J. Robert G. Williams, John Williams · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics #Philosophy and Theoretical Science #Philosophical Ethics and Theory
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The philosophy of intentionality asks questions such as: in virtue of what does a sentence, picture, or mental state represent that the world is a certain way? The subquestion I focus upon here concerns the semantic properties of language: in virtue of what does a name such as 'London' refer to something or a predicate such as 'is large' apply to some object?