ABSTRACT
There has been a good deal of interest in recent years in what Franz Brentano had to say about the notion of ‘intentional objects’ and about intentionality as a criterion of the mental. There has been less interest in his classification of mental phenomena. It would not be a plausible move to defend any theory of the emotions to which love and hate seemed exceptions by saying that love and hate are after all not emotions. The idea of learning to love that the author have invoked here is important, although it needs careful handling. Hence, it is likely that if someone has not learnt to love he will not be able to form, except by chance, stable relationships. As numerous philosophers, e.g. Dretske, have urged, there is such a thing as non-epistemic perception, cases where to perceive something does not entail believing anything about it.
