This is not to say that they did not also have ordinary political intentions, but rather to stress that the invention of political philosophy was also intended as a mode of reflection upon the value of ordinary political life.
It is equally striking that the ordinary expression of intention for the future is 'I am going to do Anscombeombe 1963, p. 1), which looks like the assertoric expression of belief.
If thousands of ordinary customers signal their intention to change their behaviour, there is little pressure the mafia can bring to bear on them.
Postulating such intentions in ordinary speakers is clearly problematic.
Paraphrase nominalists might try to respond to this argument by denying that they are committed to the thesis that their paraphrases fit with the intentions of ordinary mathematicians and ordinary folk.
But since it requires detailed analytic work to come up with the accounts, and there even are competing accounts, it is unlikely that ordinary speakers have the intentions required.
Thus, on this view, the platonist/fictionalist semantic theory is better than other semantic theories of mathematical discourse because it's the only theory that's consistent with the data not because mathematicians and ordinary folk have positive intentions to be speaking about abstract objects when they utter mathematical sentences.
The earlier film, the work of the solid journeyman Joseph Sargent, opens with the intention to present an ordinary day in Manhattan, which turns into a nightmare for a small group of citizens and the city's administration.
The intention is to map ordinary citizens' privacy conceptions and futures thinking rather than to uncover new knowledge about probable technological development or envision desirable futures.
Gertler (2001) distinguishes between ordinary demonstratives, which typically involve an intention to pick out an entity that satisfies some description, and a pure demonstrative, which picks out its referent solely by a fundamental act of attention or acquaintance.
