“Every mental phenomenon is characterized by what the Scholastics of the Middle Ages called the intentional (or mental) inexistence of an object, and what we might call... reference to a content, direction toward an object... or immanent objectivity.”

About Franz Brentano

Philosopher • German

Franz Brentano was a German philosopher, psychologist, and former Catholic priest whose work strongly influenced both phenomenology and analytic philosophy. He is best known for reintroducing the concept of...