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Intention , Philosophical work on intention is motivated by three general concerns. First, philosophers of action want to understand what it is for an event to b… Animus , animus •Lammas • Cadmus • Las Palmas •chiasmus, Erasmus •Nostradamus •famous, ignoramus, Seamus, shamus •Polyphemus, Remus •grimace • Michaelmas •Chr… Intention Movement , intention movement The first stage in a recognized sequence of behaviour; by itself it indicates to an observer the intention of an animal to perform… Intent , Intent The anatomies of international crimes tend to include material elements (relevant to conduct), mental elements (relevant to state of mind) and… Intentionality , A term, modern in coinage but medieval in inspiration, used by Franz brentano to designate what he took to be the distinctive feature of mental, as c… Action , ACTION People speak not only of the actions of human beings and other intelligent animals but also of the actions of inanimate objects such as acids…

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