Sentence examples for Brentano's from high-quality English sources.

• Chisholm was fascinated by Brentano's Thesis.

• Brentano's Thesis not entirely clear, but its importance should be obvious.

• In Content and Object, Twardowski shares a number of Brentano's fundamental theses.

• Chisholm starts by explicating some of Brentano's idiosyncratic metaphysical views.

• Brentano's rejection of the mathematicians' attempts to construct it in discrete terms is thus hardly surprising.

• Teleological theories of mental content are primarily concerned with content determination, but a complete solution to Brentano's problem will need to give answers to all three.

• Teleological theories of content, like other theories of mental content, attempt to solve what is often referred to as Brentano's problem: the problem of explaining intentionality, explaining how mental states can be about things or be directed on to things in this way.

• On the basis of the distinction between content and object, Twardowski is in turn able to clarify Brentano's notion of ‘object immanent (immanentes Objekt) in a presentation’ by identifying it with the notion of content, and to clarify Brentano's notion of ‘object of a presentation’ by identifying it with the notion of object.