Jacquette's Intentionality Test thought experiment is intended to show that

A. the intentional content of mental states is reducible to physical or functional properties.
B. what our thoughts are about is determined by features of them other than their intentionality.
C. what our thoughts are about is not determined by any feature of them other than their intentionality.
D. intentionality is not a primitive property.


Answer: C

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