Sentence examples for an intentional action from inspiring English sources

According to the standard theory, the formation of an intention is an action if it is an intentional action under some description (or if it is either identical with or generated by an intentional action; see section 2).

Take the thought that p. According to the standard theory, thinking that p is an intentional action only if the agent has an intention that includes "think that p" in its content.

Mele (2009b) argues that remembering something is never an intentional action, because no one has ever the intention to remember the particular content in question.

According to the standard theory, deciding to A would be an intentional action only if one already had the intention to make a decision that includes "deciding to A" in its content.

Here, we found that holding in mind an intention to act and at the same time thinking about an intentional action led to reduced activity in a dorsal section of the mPFC.

According to the standard theory, an event is an intentional action of the type A only if the agent has an intention that includes A in its content.

An intention with which one is doing A is an intentional-action-in-progress that explains one's doing it.

Why must there be intention in intentional action, if intentions are plans?

If they can countenance deliberative activity as (sometimes) a matter of intentional action, then they need a special reason to deny that events of intention formation deserve the same treatment.

Further, he argues that a failure to account for intentional omissions would not obviously be a shortcoming of a theory of intentional action.

In Experiment 2, we show that children restrict their exploration both after direct instruction to themselves and after overhearing direct instruction given to another child; they do not show this constraint after observing direct instruction given to an adult or after observing a non-pedagogical intentional action.