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intentionality

In philosophy, the property of consciousness whereby it is directed towards an object, even when this object does not exist in reality (such as ‘the golden mountain’). Intentionality is a key concept in the German phenomenologist Edmund Husserl's philosophy.


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At around age 6, children begin to coordinate actions or events with one intentional state in their descriptions of social phenomena.
 
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