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Intention - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Ambition, Animus, Appetite, Arrangement, Aspiration, Attack, Basis, Blueprint, Calculation, Calling, Cause, Charting, Choice, Command, Conception, Consideration, Decision, Design, Desire |
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The word intention admits a variety of meanings:
- Purpose is thoughtful and deliberate goal-directedness -- thus "intentional" behavior.
- In the philosophy of mind, intentionality is "aboutness", i.e. an intentional state of mind is one that is "about" something -- i.e. has some subject matter.
- Intension (with an s) is a different word easily mistaken for intention (with a t).
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