Subclass of:

• sdh:C4 Intention

Superclass of:

• crm:E65 Creation
• crm:E66 Formation
• crm:E85 Joining
• crm:E86 Leaving
• sdh-int:C12 Dedication
• sdh:C46 Intentional Expression

Scope note:

This classes comprises changes of mind of persons or human collectives, or other dynamic phenomena taking place in the mind, such as reading or having a conversation, which are likely to bring about a change in intention.

Intentional events, insofar as they happen in the minds of one or more persons, do not directly have a projection in geographical space. But as they are always related to sets of human actions (one or more) that provide the setting for the given intentional events (sdh:P43 is setting for) they share with these physical events the geographical location. E.g. the reading of a book as a mental operation, or a conversation with one or more persons has the correspondent physical events (having the book in the hand, sitting in a coffee house) as its setting.

Examples:

The wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten on 20 November 1947, i.e. the social fact they got married, and the involved legal change in their status, not the spatio-temporal event (crm:E5 Event) of their wedding ceremony.

Context notes:

John Searle conceptualizes an intention-in-action, i.e. the intention during the realization of the action, as an "actual event" — although it happens in the mind. He therefore distinguishes two components in an intentional action: "an intention-in-action and a bodily movement" (Making the Social World, 33-34). Intentional events can be conceptualized as a phenomenon located in one or more minds and accompanying the physical actions related to it. They are therefore modelled as a subclass of Intention.

Cf. the example on p. 36, "Raising my right hand in that circumstance constitutes voting. I vote by way of raising my hand": the intention is voting, the action is raising the hand but could be a different one. So the intentional event is about expressing a vote and this can be realised through different actions.

In First Order Logic:

• C10(x) ⇒ C4(x)

Outgoing properties:

• sdh:P3 effects (is the result of) (0,n:0,n) → sdh:C4 Intention
• sdh:P4 ends (is ended by) (0,n:0,n) → sdh:C4 Intention
• sdh:P43 has setting (is setting for) (0,n:0,n) → crm:E5 Event
• sdh:P45 has maximal projection in geographical space (is maximal projection of) (0,n:0,1) → sdh:C13 Geographical Place

Incoming properties:

• sdh:C2 Propositional Situation → sdh:P51 is interpretation of (is interpreted by) (0,n:1,n)
• sdh:C71 Quantifiable Quality of an Intentional Event → sdh:P89 is quantifiable quality of (has quantifiable quality) (0,n:0,1)
• sdh-so:C35 Actor's Quality in Relation to an Event → sdh-so:P60 is quality in relation to intentional event (has related actor's quality) (0,n:0,1)