states of affairs so beliefs and hopes and fears and desires and love and hate and lust and discussion those are all intentional now that suggests they've got something to with intending but that's just an accident of history we got this word from the Germans and like most of our confused words in philosophy I and in German intentionality doesn't sound like a position that's the word for intention so forget about the connection with intending and just think there is this capacity that the mind has to represent and it does that in a