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Further, agent causation is said to be essentially purposive; its exercise is an agent's causing her coming to have a certain intention for a certain reason (O'Connor 2000b: 68–74; Donagan 1987: 168 makes similar claims).
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First, the concept of 'intention' has various conceptual inflections whose connections to one another are not at all easy to delineate, and there have been many attempts to map the relations between intentions for the future, acting intentionally, and acting with a certain intention.
"When I did Arthur, I did that with a certain intention.
Once Jesus says certain words with a certain intention, is it coherent to say that Peter still has a choice about whether or not to betray Jesus?
Thus, she implicitly rejected anything like (7*), the causal analysis of 'acting with a certain intention' that Davidson apparently endorsed.
On an alternative account, it is required that a free action be caused by the agent and nondeterministically caused by certain agent-involving events, such as the agent's recognizing certain reasons and having a certain intention.
However, most hold that causation by an agent is just causation by certain events involving the agent, such as the agent's recognizing certain reasons and having a certain intention.
[ 14] This framework was utilized to explore patients' beliefs that lead to a certain intention and that intention to the denial of endoscopy.
Thus, the PC process uses information, supplied by the MNS, about which goals are most likely, given a certain intention, and which kinematics are most likely, given a certain goal, to test hypotheses about the observed actors' intentions.
(Gricean theories, for example, say that what counts is using the expression with a certain communicative intention).
Set a Certain Goal or Intention In yoga, we set an intention for our practice.
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