Brentano's thesis that intentionality constitutes an irreducible mark of the mental entails that no purely extensional or physicalistsemantic apparatus can fully capture directedness toward objects.
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Semantic apparatus(refers to the methods used to account for directedness toward objects)
The tools or framework used to explain meaning—basically, the system we use to understand how words, thoughts, and concepts refer to things in the world.
entails(describes a logical relationship between statements)
Logically forces or guarantees; if A entails B, then whenever A is true, B must also be true.
extensional(logic and philosophy of probability)
A property of relations (like material implication) that Nagel claimed Reichenbach's probability implication lacks
intentionality(Philosophy of mind and emotion)
The property of being object-directed; the quality of mental states whereby they are directed at or about something
irreducible(Personalist anthropology; distinguishes personhood from mere biological individuality)
That which is unique and unrepeatable in each human being, by virtue of which a person is not merely an individual of a species but a personal subject.