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Full Idea
Intentional states are mysterious things; if they are intrinsically about other things, what properties, if any, do they possess intrinsically?
Gist of Idea
If intentional states are intrinsically about other things, what are their own properties?
Source
Howard Robinson (Perception [1994], 1.1)
Book Ref
Robinson,Howard: 'Perception' [Routledge 2001], p.2
A Reaction
A very nice question, which I suspect to be right at the heart of the tendency towards externalist accounts of the mind. Since you can only talk about the contents of the thoughts, you can't put forward a decent internalist account of what is going on.