Is intention a guiding desire?
One equatesintention with guiding desire, defends the Simple View, and finds therequirement of consistency defeasible. There is rational pressure toconform to it, in general, but this pressure can be outweighed, aswhen it makes sense to intend both Aand B, despitetheir manifest inconsistency, hoping to achieve just one.
Is intention a 'pro-attitude'?
Intending is thus a ‘pro-attitude’ of somekind—assuming, for simplicity, that intention is a mental state. In his later work, Davidson specified this pro-attitude as ‘anall-out, unconditional judgement that the action is desirable’(Davidson 1978, p. 99). He made two further refinements.
What are the 7 'Faces' of intention?
Tolle: 80-90% of our thoughts / actions are habitual (but are they what we actually want?) 7 ‘faces’ of Intention: 1. Creativity 2. Kindness 3. Love 4. Beauty (seeing it, and being it) 5.
Is knowledge in intention based on observation?
Anscombe and Velleman concede that knowledge in intentionoften rests in part on observation; the claim is that it goes beyondwhat observation, or inference from prior evidence, can support. (Fordiffering views of the role of perception in practical knowledge, seePickard 2004; Gibbons 2010; Schwenkler 2011; Ford 2016.)