Yet the audience feels complicit, since every fresh act of violence seems a rational response to events, reaching back all the way to that first somewhat reasonable intention.
That is, we know that the legislature could not have had the intention that produces a drastic reading of its text; so we will supply the reasonable intention and give the text the meaning the legislature must have intended.
Sellars approaches the search for a categorically reasonable intention in several steps.
For a moral ought, we would seek a categorically reasonable intention, one that would be reasonable for anyone and everyone to have.
"Even when decisions are made, good and reasonable in intention, things are done in such a way that one's hair stands on end.
"The people at NASA and the people at the N.S.F. are reasonable people whose intentions are good," he said.
Although there is a great deal of previous research establishing the reasonable connection between intentions and future behaviour, we should keep in mind that intentionality does not necessarily lead to actual behaviour.
Be willing to "meet your employees in the middle" as long as their demands are reasonable and their intentions are good.
Support for Breckinridge's candidacy was only reasonable if the intention were to elect Lincoln.
