Sentence examples for reference to intentional from inspiring English sources

This leads many economists to eschew any reference to intentional states and to focus purely upon statistical correlations between economic variables.

The other is the assumption that intentional relations involving non-existent (e.g., fictitious) entities should be clarified by reference to intentional relations involving particulars existing in space and time.

The paper ends with the suggestion that any account of the coherence of the structural and functional descriptions of technical artefacts must involve reference to their intentional features.

It amounts to the claim that social phenomena must be explained by showing how they result from individual actions, which in turn must be explained through reference to the intentional states that motivate the individual actors.

One of its ruses teased me throughout: was the narrator's first name, Osama, an intentional reference to Osama bin Laden?

In the wake of these events, Jirous wrote a manifesto entitled A Report on the Third Czech Musical Revival - an intentional reference to the 19th-century Czech nationalist romantic movement led by Dvorak, entwining music and underground politics.

The executive producer of Top Gear, Andy Wilman, denied any intentional reference to the Falklands conflict "Top Gear production purchased three cars for a forthcoming programme; to suggest that this car was either chosen for its number plate, or that an alternative number plate was substituted for the original is completely untrue," he said.

Could that be an intentional reference to "ground zero" by an artist whose works are found in the two Japanese cities on which the United States dropped atomic bombs during World War II? "It's less about capturing a moment of time in the past," Mr. Nishino answered during a conversation at the site.

Hence the idea behind this reply would be to ground the intentional reference to the joint activity in mutual responsiveness.

(It's unclear whether the name is an intentional reference to Tim Burton's animated character Stainboy).

"Breathe" is set on 16 June, an intentional reference to James Joyce's novel Ulysses.