Franz Brentano's foundational work proposing an empirical but non-reductive psychology based on the analysis of mental acts, introducing intentionality as the mark of the mental.
Mental phenomena are defined by intentional inexistence — their directedness toward an object; classifies mental acts into presentations, judgments, and phenomena of love and hate; inner perception gives immediate, infallible access to mental acts.
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