In the headlong rout, Cameron's supposedly fixed intention to "recognise" marriage in the tax system came surprisingly close to an ad-libbed comedy sketch.
And I just said – look – have you ever thought about writing comedy?") he has little patience for people such as the comedian Stewart Lee, who recently wrote a jeremiad against the internet's effect on work like his, and announced his fixed intention to write a show that resisted all that: "You can't tweet it, or trail it, or chop it up into content".
After three years of intense study of Kant, Peirce concluded that Kant's system was vitiated by what he called its "puerile logic," and about the age of 19 he formed the fixed intention of devoting his life to the study of and to research in logic.
Third, the Court held that, if the defendant had a fixed intention to so arm the vessel upon leaving the United States, the frustration of that intention at the intermediate port was irrelevant.
Elsewhere, considering the claim that "our mind is where it fixes its intention," he says that "these words are metaphorical.
Best Test Theory: If a subject S bears no extension-fixing intentions toward "X" and "X" is an atomic natural kind term in S's language of thought (i.e., not a compound of two or more other natural kind terms), then "X" has as its extension the members of natural kind K if and only if members of K are more efficient in their causing of "X" in S than are the members of any other natural kind.
The basic idea is that the relevant sorts of intentions for fixing the reference of impure indexicals are, properly speaking, intentions aimed at getting the listener to identify a particular object (x) as the referent.
on the GOP's intentions for fixing income inequality.
It is similar in structure to a module that Nasa has just ordered from Bigelow aerospace, with the intention of fixing it to the ISS in 2015.
Film critic Dora Jane Hamblin related how four of her female friends, expecting a ho-hum film, took out make-up during the film's first few minutes with the intention of fixing their faces.
His uncle, a wealthy, eccentric and rather solitary man who divided his time between the Hamptons and Puerto Rico (you do the math) had bought us this old farmhouse outside of Princeton, New Jersey with the intention of fixing it up for us.
