Where Consciousness Is Concerned, The Appearance Is

It Seems To Me Obvious That Infants And Many Animals That Do Not In Any Ordinary Sense Have A Language Or Perform Speech Acts Nonetheless Have Intentional States. Only Someone In The Grip Of A Philosophical Theory Would Deny That Small Babies Can Literally Be Said To Want Milk And That Dogs Want To Be Let Out Or Believe That Their Master Is At The Door.

How Do We Get From Electrons To Elections And From Protons To Presidents?

Well, What Does "good" Mean Anyway? As Wittgenstein Suggested, "good," Like "game," Has A Family Of Meanings. Prominent Among Them Is This One: "meets The Criteria Or Standards Of Assessment Or Evaluation."

An Utterance Can Have Intentionality, Just As A Belief Has Intentionality, But Whereas The Intentionality Of The Belief Is Intrinsic The Intentionality Of The Utterance Is Derived.

Where Conscious Subjectivity Is Concerned, There Is No Distinction Between The Observation And The Thing Observed.