Sentence examples for intend to e from inspiring English sources
But since I intend to E, it follows, by Weak, that I do not believe (3).
It might be the case neither that one ought not to intend to E, nor that one ought to intend to E; intending to E might be merely permitted.
If that's true, then these cases of "picking" wouldn't pose a special problem for Ought Pattern 1; in all such cases, one ought to intend to M. then, so long as one does not intend to M, one has no reason to intend to E and reason not to intend to E. This makes it plausible that there is more reason (not to intend to M and not to intend to E) than (not to intend to M and to intend to E).
For example, it might be the case that one ought (to intend to M and to intend to E).
Suppose that one ought to have the means-end belief and one ought (to intend to E and to intend to M).
But it does mean that whatever pattern of intention one ought to have, it is not to (not to intend to M and to intend to E).
Perhaps doubts could even be raised, not just about whether intending to E involves believing E is possible, but also about whether intending to E involves not believing E is impossible.
However, one avoids incoherence by dropping the means-end belief, not intending to E, and not intending to M. Intuitively, one has satisfied some requirement.
Jonathan Way (2012) has developed an account which points to the costs necessarily involved in intending to E without also intending to M, specifically the psychological resources that would be wasted (one's monitoring one's progress towards E-ing, being disposed to take means towards E-ing, etc).
Suppose that this requirement to be instrumentally coherent as such is stated in "narrow-scope" form: if one intends to E and believes that one will E only if one intends to M, then one is required to intend to M. Now suppose that one intends to stay in power and believes that one will do so only if one intends to kill one's rival.
If I intend to do E and thus believe that I will do it, and I believe that doing M is a necessary means to doing E, but do not intend or believe that I am going to do M, I fail to believe a practically salient logical consequence of what I believe.
