“An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.”

—  John Rogers Searle

Source: Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind (1983), P. 27.

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