On his view, partial intentions are intention-like states that figure as sub-strategies in the context of larger, more complex plans to accomplish a given end.
(To argue that the presence of sloppy, boiling-hot calzones belies their sandwich nature is a debate on elaboration, not intention, like saying that a leaky building proves that buildings are not a form of shelter).
On October 31, 2007, during a radio interview with Ryan Seacrest, Spears talked about the song, saying, "Wherever you go, there's a lot of people who ask questions, and sometimes you don't know their intentions and stuff like that.
There are also armed groups with darker intentions, like ones that sprang up in Kunduz to fight the Taliban but that soon began to prey on locals.
The main objection to this view, pressed forcefully by Hugh McCann (1991), is that it generates an unhappy proliferation of intention-like states, and that, by finding ambiguity in 'intention with which,' it fails to unify the guises of intention.
Again, he said no: "I would never have any intention of accepting anything like that.
She said: "It was something that we considered because obviously our intention is always to entertain people, to give them a good story, to thrill them, to upset them in certain kinds of ways sometimes, but it would never be our intention to mimic something like that.
"I've definitely been shut down to talk about things but I will say that it was never my intention to make things public like that.
It isn't that he believes that a poem can mean anything, or means nothing, or that language is irreducibly ambiguous, or that only an excavation of the author's unconscious can provide the key, or that the author's intention is irrelevant, or anything like that.
We have no intention whatsoever of doing anything like that.
