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the generation, maintenance and correlation of our "concepts" by "intentions, as Dr. Willard would say (first the intention to regard the things we regard, then the intention to do somthing further about it)? We don't need metaphorical symbology for that,"

Ohh,? You don't need metaphoric symbology for that? The 'intention' to 'do' something isn't a metaphoric construct from past experience that a given 'cause' resulted in a given 'effect' and that 'metaphorically' such cause and effect will be implied, by metaphor, to the next 'intention'?

The very concept of 'intention' requires metaphor. Only by analogy can such intention be considered valid, 'it worked before, THEREFORE it will work again.'

If A then B
A Therefore B

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Ohh,? You don't need metaphoric symbology for that? The 'intention' to 'do' something isn't a metaphoric construct from past experience that a given 'cause' resulted in a given 'effect' and that 'metaphorically' such cause and effect will be implied, by metaphor, to the next 'intention'?

You stretch the definition of metaphor. "Ouch! Hot!" has no necessity to be a metaphor. It is sense, hopefully sense of reality.

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Even if all our thoughts would require symbols to reflect upon "things" and we use a kind of "language" for all complex thoughts, that does not mean we think in language.

A juggler juggles objects outside of himself. His juggling is of them, not in them. What he does he does in himself.

So our intentions are made in one's intentional self, while they apply themselves to considerations, including all senses and concepts.