Sentence examples for a purpose intention from inspiring English sources

It is in this context that Philo is understood to "reverse" his opposition to the design argument and concede to Cleanthes "that the works of nature bear a great analogy" to human productions and that a "purpose, intention, or design strikes everywhere the most careless, the most stupid thinker" (D, 12.2/214, 12.6/216 7 – my emphasis; cp. NHR, Intro.1, 15.1).

Third, punishment is a human institution, not a natural event outside human purposes, intentions, and acts.

New for '08, the Hypermotard is a fuel-injected 90-horsepower bully that kicks sand on single-cylinder bikes with dual-purpose intentions.

These theoretical virtues can rarely, if ever, all be maximized and so which virtues are deemed most important at any given time will depend on the interests, purposes, intentions, and goals of the knowers all of which might be elements of a standpoint.

And, as we have seen, far from referring to our worldly situation and the nature of various phenomena therein, 'context' is generally said by contextualists to refer to such things as the purposes, intentions, expectations, presuppositions, etc., of the speakers who utter those sentences.

Function is the design intentions or purposes, describing the relation between the goal of a human user and the behavior of a system.

When considered in this way, Wood says the question should be asked about "whose purposes and intentions are paramount" (p. 166); and "…what are the modes, intentions and outcomes of adult intervention" (p. 166).

Darwin's theory of sexual selection has disquieted and irritated many otherwise sympathetic evolutionary theorists because, I suspect, it allows purposes and intentions back into evolution through an unlocked side door.

But most Northerners and Southerners struggled throughout the Civil War to discern the purposes and intentions of their God.

What they forget, as Davies asserts, is that "mental processes" are bound up with the actions of human beings embedded in social relations, guided by purposes and intentions which need to be interpreted.

The child in play has purposes and intentions, which are intellectual and affective, and develop as their play progresses".