Context note for the class Intentional Event – C10  Back

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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.

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