Full Idea
Following Wittgenstein, we shall treat the intentional as merely a subspecies of the functional.
Gist of Idea
Is intentionality a special sort of function?
Source
Richard Rorty (Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature [1980], 1.3)
Book Reference
Rorty,Richard: 'Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature' [Blackwell 1980], p.32
A Reaction
Intriguing but obscure. Sounds wrong to me. The intentional refers to the content of thoughts, but function concerns their role. They have roles because they have content, so they can't be the same.