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Intention: the will to commit an act, as opposed to a random occurrence of such an event. See also motives, causation, will.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Jonathan Bennett on Intentions - Dictionary of Arguments

Avramides I 17
BennettVsGrice: instead of intentions (these are too complicated): simply assume "Plain Talk": the speaker relies on the faith of the listener whenever an utterance U is expressed a particular proposition p is true.
>Intentionality
, >Utterances, >Statements, >Sentences, >Truth, >Speaker meaning, >Speaker intention.
GriceVsVs: instead: "background-fact" - the assuption of a background eliminates troublesome propositional attitudes.
>Background, >Propositional attitudes.
Avramides: pro intentions - and why should they be easy?
>Intentions, >Content, >Thought, >Thinking, >Simplicity,
>Complexity.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Bennett I
Jonathan Bennett
"The Meaning-Nominalist Strategy" in: Foundations of Language, 10, 1973, pp. 141-168
In
Handlung, Kommunikation, Bedeutung, Georg Meggle, Frankfurt/M. 1979

Avr I
A. Avramides
Meaning and Mind Boston 1989


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