ABSTRACT
This chapter argues the conceive of culturally different thought and practice cultural difference, as it is often referred to in terms of culturally different action and its associated intentionality. It analyses the representative and dispositional character of intentional phenomena in terms of the maintenance of a distinctive causal relationship with environmental input phenomena. Though, on the face of it, the taxonomy engaged in here may seem rather mechanical and gratuitous, it will, in fact, serve us well in making sense of the judicial interpretation of testimonial action. Thus, in relation to hunting, the action of looking for prey is not performed out of zoological interest, following the prey is not performed with the purpose of getting some exercise, shooting it is not performed with the purpose of testing the rifle. Rather, it is to say that any more immediate purposes are believed and desired by the agent to serve the ultimate purpose of that complex action.
