Full Idea
Intentional phenomena such as meanings, understandings, interpretations, beliefs, desires, and experiences only function within a set of Background capacities that are not themselves intentional.
Gist of Idea
Intentional phenomena only make sense within a background
Source
John Searle (The Rediscovery of the Mind [1992], Ch. 8.I)
Book Reference
Searle,John R.: 'The Rediscovery of the Mind' [MIT 1999], p.175
A Reaction
Why would the background not be intentional? Presumably the background is a set of beliefs about, or images of, how the world is taken to be.