Sentence examples for intentional terms from inspiring English sources

Contrary to the common view, we learn that the courts are skeptical of attempts to define racial injury in intentional terms, racial animus being almost impossible to prove unless openly admitted.

Such accounts would need to explain the intensity or strength of pleasure in intentional terms and without making any appeal to felt intensity.

The worry is founded on the assumption that there is an unbridgeable distinction between understanding a phenomenon in intentional terms and providing a causal explanation of it.

In effect, those who propose teleological theories of mental content try to say why a mental representation, R, represents what it represents, C, by filling in the blank in, "R has the content C because (in virtue of) _______", without making ineliminable use of intentional terms.

Many just deny the intuition behind the objection, and maintain that even the strictest conceptual analyses of our intentional terms and concepts purport to define them in terms of their bona-fide causal roles, and that any norms they reflect are explanatory rather than prescriptive.

This comes out in the fact that the inputs and outputs between which the functional states are supposed to play their mediating role are typically required to be characterized in non-intentional terms.

"It confirms what we had already seen based on some of our internal reviews; there was just some sloppiness, not intentional, in terms of how we secure embassies in areas where you essentially don't have governments that have a lot of capacity to protect those embassies," Mr. Obama said.

Avoiding intentional short-term gains Selling stocks with big losses and tax harvesting those losses Avoiding the purchase of stocks just before their ex-dividend date.

These intentional movements, termed translocations, are among the most powerful tools for biodiversity conservation, as habitat loss, introduced species, disease epidemics and climate change threaten species worldwide.

While most theorists treat intention as an attitude (e.g. Davidson 1978, Harman 1976, Bratman 1986), there has been work on intention influenced by Anscombe and Wittgenstein (Wilson 1989, Thompson 2008) that understands intention fundamentally in terms of intentional action.

For many years, the most intensely debated topic in the philosophy of action concerned the explanation of intentional actions in terms of the agent's reasons for acting.