And the book's sweetly executed intention is also to teach that most difficult of lessons – and not only at Easter – how to wait.
(When she writes of 'practical knowledge' as 'the cause of what it understands' she means formal not efficient cause, and then only when 'the description of the action is of a type to be formally the description of an executed intention.' See Anscombe 1963, pp. 87 8).
They include wrongful acts of intention formation, as when one maliciously decides to kill another, and the volitional activity through which we execute wrong intentions — e.g., the effort of will aimed at carrying out the intention to murder.
Then bureaucrats write regulations to execute those intentions.
Two things at least are beyond doubt: that Simpson is in perfect control of his forces, executing his intentions precisely, and that, as is the norm in New Classical Music, he has absolutely no concern with popular appeal.
Performance on a PM task typically includes the encoding of an intention, retaining the information, executing the intention, and then evaluating the outcome (this last component being the primary focus in the current study).
He plays most days, sometimes with McEnroe himself, and likes to make connections between his game and his work ("both are performed in a rectangle, and are about gesture and reach and executing an intention, resistance").
We exercise libertarian freedom in forming or executing an intention only if our deciding or willing is not the product of deterministic causation — that is, provided there is no set of conditions independent of our exercise of will which, together with scientific law, make it certain that we shall decide or will as we do.
The decision is an intentional action when the initiation of the relevant mental operation is the result of the agent's executing the intention to decide what to do, while remaining attentionally attuned to relevant particulars of the activity and thus recognizing an indication to form a given intention as an appropriate indication.
The results demonstrated that prior acts of self-control do not impair the ability to execute a future intention in college-aged adults.
We can intend such a result, and we can even execute such an intention so that it becomes a trying, without in fact either causing or even risking it.
