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Full Idea
Phenomenologists agree that all experience has an intentional structure, that is, my experience is always about or of something; it is always directed towards an object.
Gist of Idea
Phenomenologists say all experience is about something and is directed
Source
Kevin Aho (Existentialism: an introduction [2014], 2 'Phenomenology')
Book Ref
Aho,Kevin: 'Existentialism: an introduction' [Polity 2014], p.29
A Reaction
I am just beginning to grasp that the analytic debates about perception are a re-enactment of the Kantian debates about the thing-in-itself. This is the sort of idea you find in McDowell. Presumably the idea denies the Given, and raw sense-data.
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