intentionality

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

The glossary is being gradually proof checked, but currently has many typos and misspellings.

In the philosophy of intelligence and consciousness, intentionality refers to the way that words are not merely sounds, but have real menaing. When a person says ""the sky is blue"", it is nt just a statement that has been garnered from weather data or observed through the window, but the idea of 'sky' an ''blueness' are attached to a real sense of what the person means by 'blue'

Used in Chap. 19: pages 295, 302; Chap. 23: pages 358, 361