LBT also accepts the phenomenological thesis that every mental state, including emotions, has a so-called "intentional object" or "object of the mind."

However, ideal means that essence is the intentional object of the conscience.

Since there is no intentional object that causes the negative mood, it has no specific start and stop date.

Members of this category also maintain realism in regard to intentional objects, which may imply some kind of dualism (though this is debatable).

In other words, manuals for translating one language into another cannot be set up in different yet behaviorally identical ways and ontologically there are intentional objects.

One may see a real chair, but the "intentional" object of one's "intentional state" is the mental chair one has in mind.

Every mental phenomenon, every psychological act has content, is directed at an object (the intentional object).

Although the emotional response does not take the music as its intentional object, music is the "perceptional object and the cause for this response".

In Husserl's work, consciousness of any given thing calls for discerning its meaning as an 'intentional object'.

However, intentional objects can coincide with real objects (as in thoughts about horses, or a feeling of regret about a missed appointment).