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[Citing Place (1996g)]
Citing Place (1996g) in context (citations start with an asterisk *):
Section 2 Foundational issues to power metaphysics
Subsection 2.2 2.2 Directionality
* one may fall back onto the claim that directionality is not exactly a relational
phenomenon, but a pseudo-relational one, something akin to a kind of physical
intentionality; just as dispositional directionality, intentionality may sometimes lack
an intentional object. This has been advocated in Place (1996) and Molnar (2003). On
the face of it, this is a foggy position, if anything because intentionality is presumably
more obscure than dispositional relationality: thus, explaining the latter with the
former would be a case of obscurum per obscurius.