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

2485	Do intentional states explain our behaviour? [Fodor]
	Full Idea: Intentional Realism is the idea that our intentional mental states causally explain our behaviour; so holistic semantics (which says no two people have the same intentional states, or share generalisations) is irrealistic about intentional mental states.
	From: Jerry A. Fodor (In a Critical Condition [2000], Ch. 6)
	A reaction: ...presumably because two people CAN have the same behaviour. The key question would be whether the intentional states have to be conscious.