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Introduction

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The intentionality structure of an act of knowledge is the orientation of a human knowing (noetic) subject towards a horizon of knowledge constituted by a certain ordered context of objects given or to be given in experience. The empirical answer to a particular noetic orientation on the part of a human subject constitutes a noema.

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References

  1. A. de Waelhens, La philosophie et les experiences naturelles (The Hague, Nijhoff, 1961), p. 110.

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  2. I. Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, trans. by Norman Kemp Smith, (London, Macmiillan, 1963), p. 392.

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  4. “The properties of a physical theory are formulated in abstract mathematical language. Let us compare them with a musical score. For those who cannot read notes, the musical score is dead, but the man who understands them hears the melody in them”. C. F. von Weizsäcker, The World View of Physics (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962), p. 35.

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  5. We have taken the name from a remark made by E. Cassirer: “As long as we believe that all determinateness consists in constant ‘marks’ in things and their attributes, every process of logical generalisation must indeed appear an impoverishment of the conceptual content”. Substance and Function (New York: Dover, 1953), p. 22.

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  6. Cf., B. Lonergan, Theological Studies, x (1949), 3–40, especially p. 9.

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  7. Cf., B. Lonergan, Theological Studies, VII (1946), p. 372.

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  8. Cf. O. Costa de Beauregard, Le second principe de la science du temps (Paris, Seuil, 1963), pp. 47–49.

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  1. Patrick A. Heelan S.J., M.A., Ph.D.
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Heelan, P.A. (1965). Introduction. In: Quantum Mechanics and Objectivity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0831-5_1

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