Sentence examples for intending is from inspiring English sources

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(Intentionality in this sense is distinct from the ordinary quality of being intended, as when one intends to do something.) Thus, believing is necessarily believing that something is the case; desiring is necessarily desiring something; intending is necessarily intending to do something.

First, it readily explains why intending is always intending to do something.

Intending is thus a 'pro-attitude' of some kind assuming, for simplicity, that intention is a mental state.

If intending is being on the way to intentional action, it is no surprise that its proper object what one is on the way to doing is not a mere proposition or state of affairs, but something one can do.

He draws on influential work by Libet (1985, 2001, 2004) and others to argue that conscious intending is itself a product of nonconscious processes that themselves do the real causal work, so that free will is "an illusion".

At least when we are using the 'because' of rationalization, 'He is doing A because he is doing B' arguably entails 'He is doing A because he intends to do B.' The same point holds for what is explained: 'He is doing A because…' entails 'He intends to do A because…' If intending is being on the way to intentional action, these are all forms of explanation by, and of, such progress.

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What is intended is a permanent revolution.

Indeed, "pun intended" is a Miranda Hart catchphrase.

How these verbal behaviors are intended is another matter.

"What is intended is a mix-up," Mr Abbas said.

The equivalence relation he intends is unclear.

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