People can ascribe all kinds of intentions.
'Commitment' is used as a broad umbrella term covering many different kinds of intentions, promises, convictions and relationships of trust and expectation.
In a similar fashion, Christopher Kutz argues that groups which act on the basis of the same kinds of intentions over time can be held morally responsible for earlier harms if there is a "significant overlap" in those intentions (Kurtz, 2000, p. 165).
Those kinds of intentions leave you open to receiving the same in turn.
As a kind of intention, of course zhi or yi will itself have intentional content, and thus the texts can speak of expressing or grasping one's zhi or yi.
And so, I think that they had that kind of intention at the beginning.
In fact, some theorists in pragmatics argue that you can never get any meaning out of an utterance without attributing some kind of intention.
I never claimed any special insight because I didn't see my beard as the result of some kind of intention.
'It's an environment where there are a lot of people making different music, but sharing a kind of intention and attitude.
"It's about taking this material that has no purpose, that's broken, that's useless, and remaking it back into a figure, or an object that has that kind of intention behind it," says Mr Arsham.The centrepiece of the space, "Storm", is a multimedia opus that encapsulates the horror of a hurricane in a tunnel of shattered glass with loud haunting music, flashing lights and gusts of wind.
But though it is an attitude or state of an individual, it is a fundamentally different kind of intention, and not the sort of intention that figures in individual action.
