While it is true that the execution of intention is intentional action, it does not follow that the object of intention is doing A intentionally (cf. Searle 1983, pp. 85 6).
In prospective intention, I intend not only to do A, but to do A intentionally, and the same point holds for the object of intention in action.
The object of intention can be represented as a proposition representing the movements (she moved her arm on purpose), or as various results expected or hoped for as a result of the movement (she checkmated her opponent, and made him cry, on purpose).
Objects of intention are taken, by the agent, to be "up to her", to some degree at least.
Keep the big picture in mind, but aim carefully and focus on the object of your intention before you shoot the photo.
On the other hand, it's not obvious that the prediction of an action entails that it is or must be regarded as involuntary or otherwise problematic.[36] If so, the predictive attitude toward others very well may be compatible with acting with them, and might account for how our J-ing might be the object of my intention.
When you apply yourself, when you use your innate determination, focus on the object of your intention, and commit to learning all that you can about your chosen field -- there is no way that you won't succeed.
While the particular form of the attack was fiendishly novel, New York, over nearly four centuries, has repeatedly been the object of murderous intentions.
/ Where I can shake like a leaf in your arms," but it ends like a teen-age crush, with Soak unable to tell the object of her intentions about her feelings.
Perry (2009, p. 60) argues that the referent of an utterance of a demonstrative is the object of a directing intention, and offers a rather elaborate theory of directing intentions that is inspired by some brief remarks from Kaplan.
Meanwhile, in Austria, Franz Brentano (1838 1917), who taught at the University of Vienna from 1874 to 1895, and Alexius Meinong (1853 1920), who taught at Graz, were developing an empirical psychology and a theory of intentional objects (see intention) that were to have considerable influence upon the new movement of phenomenology.
