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The 22 pages that link to Intention, each with the reason it gives.

• Free willRelated: Intentions help distinguish deliberate choices from reflexes and accidental behavior.

• Theory of mindRelated: Attributing intentions helps explain why people act, beyond what their movements show.

• DeontologyRelated: Some deontological judgments distinguish an act by the principle or purpose guiding it.

• AgencyRelated: Intentions distinguish deliberate action from mere bodily movement.

• DeceptionRelated: The deceiver's aim to mislead distinguishes deception from accidental error.

• RepentanceRelated: A resolve to change gives repentance a forward-looking direction.

• Doctrine of double effectRelated: The doctrine turns on whether harm is intended, not merely foreseen.

• Practical reasonRelated: Practical judgment can settle into an intention that organizes subsequent action.

• ResponsibilityRelated: Intentions can change how responsibility for the same outcome is judged.

• LyingRelated: The intention to mislead distinguishes many lies from mistaken or careless statements.

• ProcrastinationRelated: Procrastination involves delaying a task that is already intended.

• PromiseRelated: A promisor's intention helps distinguish a serious undertaking from empty words.

• ResolutionRelated: A resolution is an intention made especially firm.

• Folk psychologyRelated: Intentions connect an agent’s goals to planned conduct.

• Agency (philosophy)Related: Intentions help distinguish deliberate action from accidental behavior.

• G. E. M. AnscombeRelated: Anscombe’s central work analyzes intention through the actions people perform intentionally.

• Good and evilRelated: A harmful result may be judged differently when it was intended than when it was accidental.

• Paul GriceRelated: Recognizing communicative intentions is central to Grice’s account of speaker meaning.