Abstract
Intensionality in humans involves the application of the mind to a psychological object. The following properties characterize intensional constructs:
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Intensional constructs are symbolic; i.e., there is an internal (mental) construct that represents some external object, event, or property.
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A person can examine and report his beliefs, wants, and intentions [Dennett 1971]. A person’s intensional constructs are reportable as internal events or mental states. (Nonintensional mental constructs can only be performed and not examined.) Hence, the person can communicate intensional constructs or build further models of them.
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Since their names are reportable, intensional constructs can be compared to their referents and updated for accuracy.
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Faught, W.S. (1978). Intensional Constructs. In: Motivation and Intentionality in a Computer Simulation Model of Paranoia. Interdisciplinary Systems Research / Interdisziplinäre Systemforschung. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6547-0_6
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