Sentence examples for forms of intention from inspiring English sources

In contrast to the literature on collective intentionality, these accounts focus on ways of reasoning rather than forms of intention, or mental states.

Virtually all work since Davidson's conversion has followed him in acknowledging the state of prospective intention as irreducible to action, and has been led to seek unity in the forms of intention by explaining the others intentional action and intention-with-which in terms of intention-with-which intate.

Most require some form of intention or knowledge on the part of the offender and this leads to difficulty in establishing liability based on available evidence.

There is a general presumption that some form of intention or knowledge (mens rea) is necessary for the commission of a criminal offence because of the impact of criminal penalties (including loss of liberty).

Sixteen percent of infants were unable to show any form of intention for the retrieval of the toy whatsoever, and only 2% of infants were able to obtain the maximum intention score.

National conventions include the ceremonial form of intention-veiling flattery known as "taarof," and the sacrifice of truth to higher religious imperative known as "tagieh" (The Shiites, like the Jews, have been lonely in the Middle East; lying was often a means to survive).

Before turning to a different type of account in which this particular problem of circularity is (at least apparently) circumvented, it should be noted that Bratman's adherence to the 'I'-form of intentions is expressive of the individualism underlying his approach.

Daanje (1950) proposed that many of the courtship and agonistic (aggressive/submissive) displays in birds were ritualized forms of locomotory intention movements; in other words, courtship displays were ritualized forms of an individual's intention to move.

It was suggested earlier (in Section 1) that thinking of a group as itself an agent and a subject of intentional states was not a good model or account of central forms of shared intention and activity.

However, his conception suggests that a Searlean version may be the basic form of shared intention, and that a normatively stabilized conception of collective intentionality as developed by Gilbert may be adequate for the forms of shared intention coming a later stage in development.

So long as I know what I intend, and that my intention will be effective, I have sufficient evidence for what I am doing, or what am I going to do, even though this evidence did not precede the forming of my intention.