 Findlay follows Brentano in vigorously maintaining that intentionality is the mark of the mental. But then the exposition turns Husserlian. Intentional objects are presented to consciousness, but they can present themselves clearly or obscurely, completely or incompletely, in various lights and with varying scope. There is a problem distinguishing what is in consciousness from what lies outside it. “We must distinguish, between what is actually and what is only facultatively or dispositionally present to mind”. The distinction provides an occasion for a typical descriptive excursus: