Sentence examples for productive intentions from inspiring English sources

According to condition (DEP), a person is an author of an artifact only if the existence and the character of the artifact depend on that person's productive intentions.

In the latter case the author has a reason to try to improve the object until it satisfies his productive intentions.

If the author's productive activity is successful, the character of a completed artifact both depends on and agrees with his productive intentions so that it can be regarded as an embodiment of these intentions.

The scribe intends the copy to have a certain textual character, but that intention is determined by and dependent on the productive intentions of the original author of the text.

If the author's conception of an object agrees with its intended character, the artifact is subjectively satisfactory for the author, but it may fail to fit the author's productive intentions if he has a mistaken conception of it.

The causal tie between an artifact and its intended character — or, strictly speaking, between an artifact and its author's productive intention — is constituted by an author's actions, that is, by his work on the object.

An author's productive intention is often expressed by cognitive artifacts which show the character of the intended artifact and the way it should be constructed, for example, a drawing, a diagram, or a model of the artifact, together with a list of parts and materials and a set of instructions (a precept) for the production process.

In addition to an identifying (sortal) description F, the content of an author's productive intention includes the properties that he regards as significant for the purpose F. The latter properties depend on this purpose (or purposes); thus the intended character of an artifact is not simply a collection of predicates, but has a hierarchical structure.

(Source: E. Koester, MyHighTechStart-Up). Firing a productive employee with the intention to find and rehire someone else isn't a decision to take lightly.

The story of the Chinese-found objects was not the first or the last false alarm, and was hardly productive even if the intention is to cross debris off the list.

The models correctly explained 73.3%, 83.7% and 73.3% of the variability in having converted marginal meadow in woodland and of future intentions to change the productive forest species and increase the area of productive forestland, respectively.