Franz Brentano#Franz
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#Franz
Franz Brentano · 1838–1917
In the books · 1 chapter
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“He gave up his priesthood, his professorship, and his citizenship — each time rather than say something he did not believe — and one sentence he wrote in 1874 still defines the deepest puzzle about the mind.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“What makes a mind a mind is intentionality — every mental act is directed at something, is about something, while no merely physical thing is about anything at all.”
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