Sentence examples for cannot intend to from inspiring English sources

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"Combatants cannot intend to harm noncombatants, though proportionality permits them to act knowing some noncombatants may be harmed," the manual explains.

Second, one counts as intending an action only if one's beliefs are consistent with one's performing it; one cannot intend to do what one believes to be impossible (Davidson 1978, pp. 100 1).

He is not lying according to L13, either, at least if it is true that you cannot "intend to do something that you do not expect to succeed at" (Fallis 2009, 43 n 48; cf. Newey 1997, 96 97).

If a negotiator makes an untruthful statement, "That is the highest I can go," to another negotiator, then, since the negotiator believes that the other negotiator believes that he is making an untruthful statement, he cannot intend to warrant the truth of his statement, and/or the context (of negotiation) is such that he is not warranting the truth of his statement.

Because most people intend to have only few children, and because people cannot intend to have fewer than zero children, the Poisson model is better suited to model these data than the Normal model.

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If you cannot understand what it is to believe something, you cannot intend someone to believe something either (cf. Glüer & Pagin 2003).

For example, one constraint on the Doctrine holds that one cannot intend the means to the desired end.

One cannot intend what one takes to be entirely beyond one's abilities, or beyond one's control (Sellars calls this the "'up to the agent'ness" [Sellars 1980: 98] of intention).

The main restriction placed on this type of charity is that it cannot be intended to facilitate anything that Islamic law deems unlawful.

However, despite his statement "nothing is without a sufficient reason why it is," it is clear that Clarke cannot have intended to agree with Leibniz that every fact or truth has a sufficient reason.

They cannot be avoided if we intend to persist in hope for justice and reconciliation, things that rarely come about because people suddenly decide to lay down their weapons and try something new.

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