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intention

accident

oxymoron

untranslatable word

There's a word for that

good intentions

trivia

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is not something you can learn from a man just by asking him.

You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

is a folk concept rather than a scientific concept.

some materialist and eliminationist neuroscience suggests that 'intention' is a folk, not a scientific, concept and does not refer to anything real (Churchland 1992:chap. 1). (Fuchs 2001:27)

is always an objectifying act, including not just theoretical awareness, but also such obscure intentions as wishes, fears, confusion, and anger.

only a principle that unifies all our various perceptions of the tree and house from many different angles and distances.

is defined as the mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set... an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set... an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

is not what people are judged by, but rather, actions, for even a hard-boiled egg has a heart of gold.

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold ' but so does a hard-boiled egg.

is problematic in that it is difficult to determine if an intention is a reason or a cause, something that explains or something that defines an action, something that is an idle intention or initiates sore real action.

intention' is loaded with philosophical and analytical problems, including whether intentions are reasons or causes, whether they explain or define action and how to distinguish between idle intentions and those initiating some real action. Are intentions in the group, consciousnesss, the mind, or the brain' (Fuchs 2001:27)

is necessarily partial. People may know what they do, and they may frequently know why they do what they do, but what they don't know is what they do does.

As Foucault puts it, 'people know what they do... they frequently know why they do what they do... but what they don't know is what they do does' (Foucault, cited in Krips 1990: 173).

is harmful. Nothing more harms us than good intentions.

There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions. Milton Friedman

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