“Of great importance is Brentano’s classification of psychic phenomena. There are three classes: presentations, judgments, and emotive acts. Of the first Brentano claims that all psychic phenomena are either presentations […]
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Reference to an object is thus the decisive and indispensable feature of anything that we consider psychical
“Brentano’s first concern in psychology was to find a characteristic which separates psychological from non-psychological or ‘physical’ phenomena. It was in connection with this attempt that he first developed his […]