Sentence examples for reference to intentions from inspiring English sources

The notion of malfunction also sharpens an ambiguity in the general reference to intentions when characterizing technical artifacts.

If we take them as the same architectural objects, we need an account as to how they relate to one another apparently not by reference to intentions.

The discussion is derived from a study of three green rating systems representing international, national and local systems with reference to intentions, mechanisms and benchmarks to facilitate objective assessments.

Within his terminology, he associates material things with reasoning in terms of cause and effect; abstract concepts with reasoning in terms of logic; mathematical and geometrical constructions with reasoning in reference to numbers and spaces; and motivating forces with reasoning in reference to intentions, or what he calls moral reasoning.

The reference to intentions highlights how we cognitively manage the world surrounding us with mental operations, so that the elements of the real are for us no longer "things" but, as has been seen, poles of possible operations that we can carry out – correlated with possible interactions between ourselves (our body) and the world.

The solution to the imperfective paradox just outlined makes reference to the intentions of the agent involved in the event; therefore the notion of a goal or intention is built into the system right from the start.

With reference to the intention to teach both evolutionary theory and unscientific alternatives, the high rejection of German pre-service teachers to teach unscientific alternatives meets our expectations.

21 In questions 3 5 and 6 8, the willingness to provide honest answers decreased as references to the intention to hasten death became more explicit, presumably reflecting an increased risk that the latter actions would be regarded as illegal if investigated.

So simple supposition was readapted to model reference to common concepts or intentions.

In a pointed reference to Washington's declared intention of setting up a American military government over Iraq in the event Saddam Hussein was ousted, the Iranian envoy said, "the prospect of appointing a foreign military commander to run an Islamic and Arab country is all the more destabilizing".

This criticism arguably does not suggest the need to abandon interpretation by reference to the legislature's intention, but serves to highlight the importance of the need to use the power of interpretation in an appropriate manner.