RE: A Working Draft Design Argument
October 13, 2019 at 7:21 pm
(This post was last modified: October 13, 2019 at 7:23 pm by Belacqua.)
(October 13, 2019 at 7:13 pm)Acrobat Wrote: P1- Intentionality gives things value and meaning. Novels possess intrinsic values and meaning, as a result of being authored, designed, endowed by their authors to posses such elements.
Just to be clear down the road, maybe we should define "intentionality."
In phenomenology, it has a specific meaning, but I think that's not what you're using here. Would you mind paraphrasing? Does it mean "made with a goal in mind"?
Here is the meaning in Merleau-Ponty, et.al.:
"In phenomenology, the characteristic of consciousness whereby it is conscious OF something -- i.e. its directness toward an object."