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If people wonder whether other people are gay, "that is the collective intention, and we abide with it".
The AT is a place of altruism, non-judgment and kindness and there is collective intention to enable healing and self-discovery".
A key notion in Searle's account of social institutions is that of a collective intention, such as the intention expressed by "Let's push the log at the count of three".
Collective intentions, or "we-intentions," entail the existence of individual intentions, or "I-intentions," because a person cannot intend that he and others do something without also intending that he do his part (and because there is no distinct entity, over and above the individual, that could be said to be the bearer of a collective intention).
One person's we-intention does not make for a collective intention.
How do the we-intentions of individual participants have to be related to each other in order to constitute a genuine collective intention?
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Instead, he argues that collective intentional agency supervenes on individual intentional agency in ways that allow us to talk about both collective intentions and collective actions.
Collective intentions can be attributed to individuals, but only collectively, it seems, and not distributively.
"We're trying to reflect the world's collective intentions".
Distributions (summations, aggregates) of individual intentions do not make for collective intentions, even if combined with common knowledge, or mutual belief.
Related work, but not a logic of action in the strict sense, concerns the logical treatment of collective intentions (Keplicz and Verbrugge 2002).
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