Sentence examples for certain intention from inspiring English sources
"When I did Arthur, I did that with a certain intention.
Thus, she implicitly rejected anything like (7*), the causal analysis of 'acting with a certain intention' that Davidson apparently endorsed.
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?
The second problem is more a question: whether 'the relation of being done in execution of a certain intention, or being done intentionally, is a causal relation between act and intention.' (Anscombe 1983, p. 95) Anscombe denies that it is.
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).
As O'Connor sees it, agents do not cause free decisions; rather, a free decision is a causally complex event, consisting of the agent's causing her coming to have a certain intention.
Certain things (i.e., in light of the previous point, certain intentions) becomes morally obligatory, permitted or forbidden simply because God decrees so.
Some philosophers argue, however, that the presence of certain intentions might render a particular act of beneficence less than gratitude-worthy.
According to Summer (1998); when a person has certain intentions, he is sure to direct his behavior so that it runs parallel with the objective in achieving the intention.
Just that I intend to influence other people to behave in a certain way, or to form certain intentions, does not make my attitude intersubjective in such a way as to provide a stance for mutual critical assessment.
It typically states that people first have certain desires, then generate certain intentions to fulfil these desires (assuming that certain other criteria are true as well, such as the belief that this intention contributes to the desire), and finally they realise their intentions in terms of actions.
