Intention

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An intention is a mental state in which a person commits themselves to a course of action. Having the plan to visit the zoo tomorrow is an example of an intention. The action plan is the content of the intention while the commitment is the attitude towards this content. Other mental states can have action plans as their content, as when one admires a plan, but differ from intentions since they do not involve a practical commitment to realizing this plan. Successful intentions bring about the intended course of action while unsuccessful intentions fail to do so. Intentions, like many other ment

A plan is typically any list of steps, with details of timing and resources, used to achieve an objective. It is commonly understood as a temporal set of intended actions through which one expects to achieve a goal, and is sometimes represented by a diagram.

philosophical adage stating "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

intention to be fair, open, and honest

Intentionality is the mental ability to refer to or represent something. Sometimes regarded as the mark of the mental, it is found in mental states like perceptions, beliefs or desires. For example, the perception of a tree has intentionality because it represents a tree to the perceiver. A central issue for theories of intentionality has been the problem of intentional inexistence: to determine the ontological status of the entities which are the objects of intentional states.

outcomes that are not the ones intended or foreseen by a purposeful action, resulting from a variety of reasons, including the world's inherent complexity as well as cognitive or emotional biases

mental element in criminal law

person's relation with what they accept as being of ultimate importance

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document outlining one or more agreements between two or more parties before the agreements are finalized

a principle originating inside a person's mind that compels that person to act

hypothetical tendency for sufficiently intelligent agents to pursue unbounded instrumental goals such as self-preservation and resource acquisition

ability to make ethical judgements

premeditation or predetermination of a crime, increasing the guilt or enormity of the crime

legal doctrine regarding criminal intention

mens rea for the crime of genocide

Conceptual issue in the philosophy of mind

Strategy in psychology on attaining goals

intention to do injury to another party

an author's intent as it is encoded in their work

morally negative intentional event