Sentence examples for individual intentions from inspiring English sources

Whatever the individual intentions or actions, US immigration policy remains deadly.

The "invisible hand" of competition, Smith implied, assures a social result that is independent of individual intentions and thus creates the possibility of an objective science of economic behaviour.

While the existence of unintended outcomes obviously poses insuperable difficulties for explanations in terms of individual intentions, it is exactly what theories of universal history are equipped to explain.

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).

In TRA rational considerations determine the choices and behaviors of individuals, and individual intentions determine behavior.

This helps agents to orientate and to follow their individual intentions.

Predicting individual intention dealing with main transport projects is quite difficult.

A we-intention is not reducible to an individual intention, nor to an individual intention in conjunction with other individual attitudes such as individual beliefs (Searle 1995: 24-6; Searle 2010: Chapter 3).

An individual intention to experiment with new technologies in general is an important predictor for future adoption of technology.

We get some idea of what Gilbert has in mind by contrasting it with personal commitment associated with individual intention or decision (2009, 180).

Bratman defends a reductive account of this normative requirement, explaining this interpersonal normative constraint in terms of the norms of commitment governing individual intention, such as those of consistency and means-end coherence.