Lecture 6: M Twist on Intention

Lectures on Formal Analysis by M Twist

"How do you know?" is one of the objections to a class in formal analysis. But, intention, like every other term that we’ve been dealing with is a philosophical term and it has a lot of different possible meanings. The question is, what does it mean in any given philosophical orientation. Again, words aren’t things that have one meaning, they have as many meanings as they can take on in the course of a discourse. Intention in the super sensible realm and the sensible realm would be: The Right Intention, to will the rational end. Ignorance, to will something other than the rational end. Intention as an antecedent mental event that is the cause of an external action. Intention as attributing a motive to someone else. Intention as an aesthetic intention. Formal intention, to solve a formal problem. Lecture delivered on April 4th, 2014.