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You might I suppose say that a tidal wave was 'about' the earthquake that
produced it. Here you have just a causal relation ship between
two things. This isn't the 'aboutness' that is intentionality.
Just think of the sense in which a thought is about something. (My thought that my brother lives in London.) When I say this thought is about my brother's being in London, I don't just mean that my brother's being in London brought it about. I mean my thought somehow in itself points to a certain state of affairs, namely my brother's being in London. It points to this state of affairs in a way that the tidal wave does not point to the earthquake that generated it. |