Sentence examples for rather intentions from inspiring English sources

Even though for both Avicenna and Henry thing (res) and being (ens) are primary notions (or rather intentions — intentiones — the sense of which we shall soon clarify), intentio de re seems to have a certain precedence over intentio de esse, at least logically, in virtue of its double indifference.

In Figure  1, positive and negative channels for retention (or rather, intention to stay) are expressed with + and - signs.

Emphasize beliefs rather than intentions.

I never thought the key question was what weapons he actually possessed but rather what intentions he had.

It is not the subject but rather the intentions that determine the moral possibilities of a film.

In the frazzled mind of Charles Manson, the Beatles were equally supernatural, but sent to Earth with rather darker intentions: they were seeding their songs with messages of apocalypse.

Facebook's "data-base of affinity", as Elliott calls it, which is based on its users preferences, rather than intentions, has great potential for Facebook to power brand advertising, rather than direct response, he says.

Focusing on recent behaviour rather than intentions, it found fewer than 1% had reduced their travel in line with a corporate environmental policy.When it comes to green travel, it seems nobody is sure who should take the lead.

We observe here also that Armstrong 1971 quite reasonably offers an account of speaker meaning in terms of objectives rather than intentions, his reason being that the latter notion is narrower than the former.

Parent, in particular, seemed constantly upset that his organization hadn't done enough "messaging" to obscure its rather transparent intentions.

The second principle, she continued, is to focus on impact rather than intention.