The difference between intended or chosen means (or ends) and foreseeable or even fully foreseen effects ("side-effects"), like the consequent difference between the moral and, presumptively, legal standards applicable respectively to intended and not-intended effects, is psychologically and morally real.
The foreseen effects are not reasons for action; rather, as Boyle notes, "…they are sometimes conditions in spite of which one acts" (1980, 535).
They assisted patients with filling out questionnaires on quality of life, and, as a not foreseen effect, the nurses were also found to play an important role in giving advice and support to these patients (unpublished results).
Although the foreseen effect was to reduce use of secondary care services, the point was made that the primary aim of the project was to improve care for patients.
An act might undermine an institutional process or purpose without the person who performed it intending this effect, foreseeing this effect, or indeed even being in a position such that they could or should have foreseen this effect.
I foresee consequential effects on young artists and scholars, who have been given what almost amounts to a new past.
This is achieved to foresee the effects of probabilistic distribution on monthly electricity consumption.
But it will be past time too to foresee the effects of technology changes and to prepare for a future far different from anything we have imagined.
One way to foresee potential effects of the ACA's large Medicaid expansions is to analyze the Medicaid expansions of the early 2000s in several states.
Thus the model allows us to know and to foresee the effects of operational and design parameters on the performance of the metal-hydride cooling system.
A concern was expressed that it is extremely difficult to foresee all effects of regulative actions because of communication barriers between regulative policy makers and the developers of technology.
