Sentence examples for prospective intentions from inspiring English sources

According to Bratman (1985, §VI), Davidson neglects the place of prospective intentions in cross-temporal and inter-personal coordination, and as inputs to further practical thought.

In particular, how does intentional action relate to prospective intention and intention-with-which?

If prospective intention cannot be explained in terms of intentional action, or both in terms of being in progress, how can we preserve the unity of our three divisions?

Unfortunately, a prospective intention-to-treat study to test this superiority will be hard to perform.

And prospective intention, or intention for the future, involves a belief about what one is going to do and why.

As he came to see, however, this story neglects and cannot easily incorporate prospective intention or intention for the future (Davidson 1978).

A deeper problem for the teleological approach is how to complete this reconstruction with an account of prospective intention in terms of intention-with-which.

This fact elicits a refinement often credited to Searle (1983, pp. 84 5): the distinction between prospective intention and intention in action.

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 unity of prospective intention and 'doing A intentionally' is that the latter, too, consists of being in progress, though perhaps with the implication of some success.

Virtually all work since Davidson's conversion has followed him in acknowledging the state of prospective intention as irreducible to action, and has been led to seek unity in the forms of intention by explaining the others intentional action and intention-with-which in terms of intention-with-which intate.