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The early Brentano identifies intentionality with „intentional inexistence“, i. e., with a kind of indwelling of the intentional object in the mind. The latter concept cannot be grasped apart from its scholastic background and the Aristotelian-Thomistic doctrine of the multiple use of .being’ (to on legetai pollachos). The fact that Brentano abandoned the theory of the intentional inexistence in the course of time does not contradict the thesis that it is the intentional inexistence“, i. e., with a kind of indwelling of the intentional objec ness to something other which comprises the essence of intentionality for the early Brentano.