Sentence examples for intending as a from inspiring English sources

In this way, natural-law views incorporate some distinctively moral structuring — such as the distinctions between doing and allowing and the so-called doctrine of double effect's distinction between intending as a means and accepting as a by-product — within a unified account of practical reasoning (see entry on the natural law tradition in ethics).

According to Gilbert, group intentions exist when two or more persons constitute the plural subject of an intention to carry out a particular action, or, in other words, when "they are jointly committed to intending as a body to do A" (Gilbert, 2000, p. 22).

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.

"It was never intended as a parody.

(This was intended as a compliment).

Is that intended as a slogan?

It was not intended as a compliment.

It was never intended as a punishment.

Is this intended as a metaphor?

The comparison is intended as a compliment.

The comment was intended as a compliment.