Sentence examples for one's intention from inspiring English sources

It suggests that behaviour depends on one's intention to perform certain acts, which is, however, influenced by external factors preventing or supporting an individual to engage in certain behaviour.

I then already intend the end, but cannot as yet seriously intend the means; for it is plausibly part of having a present intention to do something that one expects one's intention to play a role in a causal sequence culminating in one's doing it.

It should say: one is required to either revise one's intention to E, or revise one's belief that one will E only if one intends to M, or intend to M. (See especially Broome 1999 and Wallace 2006. For earlier defenses of the wide-scope view, see Hill 1973 and Darwall 1983).

One implication of utilitarianism is that one's intention in performing an act may include all of its foreseen consequences.

Dr. Siegler said that people "may tell themselves the primary goal is the relief of pain, but I think it's very easy to believe that one's intention is Simon Pure and then in retrospect, either to realize for oneself or have others point out it sure seemed like a gray case".

It's always a good idea to examine one's intention in bringing an issue up, especially one that has already been addressed.

The literature has gone astray in understanding weakness of will in this way; weakness of will is actually quite a different phenomenon, in which the agent's better judgment plays no role.[14] For Holton, when ordinary people speak of weakness of will they have in mind a certain kind of failure to act on one's intentions.

As LeBron James will tell you, self-aggrandizing announcements cast doubt on one's intentions.

Instrumental rationality, as it's usually understood, is a requirement of coherence governing one's intentions and beliefs a requirement that is in place regardless of the truth of those beliefs.

It is true that, if I advise someone "Get drunk", he might respond "Are you telling me to have a hangover?" Yet this inference is not acceptable as leading from one intention to another; for predicted side-effects of realizing one's intentions are not thereby intended, even if (in another case) they are welcome.

On the contrary, words by definition are the clearest expression of one's intentions, of one's hopes.