Sentence examples for prior intention from inspiring English sources

According to the simplest possible view, an intentional action of doing A is the execution of a prior intention to do A, and doing A with the intention of doing B is intending, of one's doing A, that it promote or constitute one's doing B. There are two immediate difficulties.

Apple's newly worded policy provides more clarity on the matter, but it doesn't really change Apple's prior intention.

We previously demonstrated that stimulating neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors modulates prospective memory (PM), the ability to remember and implement a prior intention.

In the current study, complete occlusion was achieved in 9 patients (42.9%), this cure rate is similar to the previously quieted figures, and this high cure rate could be explained by the prior intention to completely occlude the lesion whenever possible, the use of Oynx with detachable tip catheters which permit longer injection time, and the use of staged approach.

Recapitulating the preceding paragraphs, it is clearly stated that the prior intention of the mobility partnerships, despite their multidimensional character, is not solving the considerable number of crises Europe is dealing with, but serving mostly the goal of externalizing its borders as a solution to upcoming problems.

If intrinsic intentionality is at all possible, then it would seem possible for an event with this feature to be brought about in the manner and in roughly the circumstances (in the absence of any relevant desire or prior intention) just considered in discussing Ginet's view.

Then he looked up, despite all best prior intentions.

Although prior intentions were clearly related to actual avoidance of drunk driving, one out of five respondents had not complied with their intention.

And to what extent does diachronic rationality require cross-temporal coherence in the form of a presumption in favor of prior intentions.

Something that would be secured if individuals could act directly on each other's intentions much in the way each may act on his or her own prior intentions.

Some big questions in this area include the following: To what extent does self-governance over time (or at least effective self-governance over time) require cross-temporal coherence in the form of a presumption in favor of prior intentions?