How Not To Talk About What Does Not Exist

In Rudolf Haller, Aesthetics. Hingham, Mass., U.S.A.: D. Reidel [distributor]. pp. 194-196 (1984)
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Abstract

Defends a view of intentional directedness according to which those seemingly object-directed acts – involved for example in reading works of fiction – which lack existing objects as targets, are not intentional (thus: not directed towards any object). Rather, each such act seems to its subject as if it were so directed because it is associated with a belief of a certain special sort, whose intentional directedness is not towards any putative external object but rather towards the very act itself with which the belief is associated.

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