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Inhibited intentionality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the idea that individuals come to restrict themselves through restricting how they use their bodies, such as how 'throwing like a girl' is reflective of an effort by girls to take up less space in what they do.

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Intentional arc (n.) projects ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠around us our past, future, human setting and moral situation, uniting the senses, intelligence and movement — and it is this that goes limp in illness.

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Motor intentionality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠what the brain-injured Schneider has lost: he can think a movement or flail toward it blindly, while for a normal person every movement is at once movement and awareness of it.

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Motor intentionality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠what lies between movement as a mechanical process and thought as an idea of movement: the body's own aim at its goal, without which an order stays a dead letter.

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Motor intentionality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠intention that lives in the reach, not the speech.

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Motor intentionality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the body's plan that finishes before the mind files the paperwork.

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Operative intentionality (n.) shows ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠up more clearly in our desires and the landscape we see than in any knowledge — it writes the text that science tries to translate.

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Operative intentionality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a hand finding the light switch in the dark before you decided to look for it.

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Operative intentionality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠why you can type a password you could not say out loud.

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Operative intentionality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠knowing what you meant only after the gesture finished.

Kinds of Intentionalities

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