Sentence examples for sort of intentional from inspiring English sources

The UN Environmental Modification treaty (ENMOD) was negotiated to address exactly the sort of intentional environmental modifications that gene drives would deliver.

Because they know what to do when they walk into a restaurant, and we have to be sort of intentional idiots — 'Oh, I'm going to order this thing' — even though nobody in his right mind has ordered it in 20 years".

However, due to the nature of the error message it feels decidedly more like a bug and not like any sort of intentional ban.

In all of these and related versions of the Individual Ownership Thesis, the basic claim is that each individual has a mind of his or her own, and has a sort of intentional autonomy that is incompatible with the view that individual minds are somehow fused when intentional states are shared.

In contrast, the conditions on an appropriate model of representational reduction require the identification of a specific sort of intentional similarity; if one representation reduces to another, it does so because of a similarity in what, and maybe how, these representations represent.

That sort of intentional "diversity" is the approach businesses take, sourcing a single token representative of specific ethnic groups.

Moreover, unlike other sorts of intentional pleasures, pleasure in beauty is "disinterested".

It is a kind of intentional gridlock.

Shakespeare's Ophelia is committing a sort of semi-intentional suicide, while Christine's death is a terrible accident, and yet the staging here implies something willed – a grotesque, parodic christening ceremony which is a sinister symbol or prophecy of another death still to come.

Screen shot of "Intentional Rabbit Holes".

Such plural subjects, as a particular sort of social group, can be subjects of intentional states such as intentions, beliefs, and acceptance; this is the point at which the account regards the subject of collective intentionality.