  The question can be decomposed into two questions. On the one hand, acceptance of intensionality as the criterion of intentionality seems to reflect the endorsement of a general linguistic view of intentionality in the following sense: what matters to the mental (i.e. non-linguistic) state reported are the properties of the linguistic report. There are at least two reasons for scepticism about the linguistic view of intentionality. On the other hand, there are some specific reasons for questioning two of Chisholm’s criteria. I start with the latter. It seems hard to deny that states of knowledge are states with intentionality. At least, reports of knowledge states satisfy Chisholm’s second non-substitutivity criterion. From the fact that knowledge ascription (18) is true, it does not follow that (19) is, even though ‘Cicero’ and ‘Tully’ are coreferential: