Sentences with phrase «total qualitative difference»

Or perhaps the latter: given the total qualitative difference between the active, directed mental «intentionality» exhibited in conscious cognition (that is to say, the «aboutness» of thought and perception, the «meaningfulness» of reality as apprehended under finite phenomenal, conceptual, and semiotic aspects) and the passive, undirected indeterminacy of any reality that might exist independent of mental acts.