Complete crowding out would destroy intentional directedness itself, yet Brentano's phenomenological evidence shows occluded representations retain dispositional intentional character.

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Brentano(the philosopher whose hypothesis is being discussed): Franz Brentano was a 19th-century philosopher who argued that consciousness is the defining feature of mental states—basically, that what makes something a thought or feeling is that it's about something and we're aware of it.
Crowding out(in philosophy of mind): When one thing takes up so much space or attention that it completely eliminates or prevents something else from existing or functioning.
Dispositional intentional character(in philosophy of mind): The ability of a mental state to be *about* something even when it's not actively being thought about—like how a belief you're not currently thinking about still counts as a belief.
Intentional directedness(central concept in philosophy of mind): The idea that our thoughts, feelings, and perceptions are always *about* something—they point toward or aim at an object outside the mind.

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