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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 4. Intentionality / a. Nature of intentionality

15473	How does anything get outside itself? [Fodor, by Martin,CB]
	Full Idea: Fodor asks the stirring and basic question 'How does anything get outside itself?'
	From: report of Jerry A. Fodor (works [1986]) by C.B. Martin - The Mind in Nature 03.6
	A reaction: Is this one of those misconceived questions, like major issues concerning 'what's it like to be?' In what sense am I outside myself? Is a mind any more mysterious than a shadow?

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 4. Intentionality / b. Intentionality theories

2981	Is intentionality outwardly folk psychology, inwardly mentalese? [Lyons on Fodor]
	Full Idea: For Fodor the intentionality of the propositional-attitude vocabulary of our folk psychology is the outward expression of the inward intentionality of the language of the brain.
	From: comment on Jerry A. Fodor (works [1986]) by William Lyons - Approaches to Intentionality p.39
	A reaction: I would be very cautious about this. Folk psychology works, so it must have a genuine basis in how brains work, but it breaks down in unusual situations, and might even be a total (successful) fiction.