Full Idea
Love, hate, and the other object-directed attitudes have as much of a role in explaining behaviour as the propositional attitudes.
Clarification
Propositional attitudes are attitudes to proposiions, like believing or hoping it is raining
Gist of Idea
Object-directed attitudes like love are just as significant as propositional attitudes
Source
Tim Crane (Elements of Mind [2001], 4.34)
Book Reference
Crane,Tim: 'Elements of Mind' [OUP 2001], p.114
A Reaction
A good clarification of the range of intentional states. Objects seem to be external, where propositions are clearly internal.