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The principle of the votive Mass is older than its name. Almost at the very origin of the Western liturgies (with their principle of change according to the Calendar) Mass was occasionally offered, apparently with special prayers and lessons, for some particular intention, irrespective of the normal Office of the day.
Niyyah (Arabic: نِيَّةٌ, variously transliterated niyyah, niyya, "intention") is an Islamic concept: the intention in one's heart to do an act for the sake of God . [ 1 ] The general Islamic principle of niyyah is laid out in Chapter 33 (Al-Ahzab) of the Quran in Ayat (Verse) 5:
An intention is a mental state in which a person commits themselves to a course of action. Having the plan to visit the zoo tomorrow is an example of an intention. The action plan is the content of the intention while the commitment is the attitude towards this content. Other mental states can have action plans as their content, as when one ...
The difference between the intentions and the allowable actions is the gulf of execution. [9] "Consider the movie projector example: one problem resulted from the Gulf of Execution. The person wanted to set up the projector. Ideally, this would be a simple thing to do. But no, a long, complex sequence was required.
Prospective memory is a form of memory that involves remembering to perform a planned action or recall a planned intention at some future point in time. [1] Prospective memory tasks are common in daily life and range from the relatively simple to extreme life-or-death situations. [2]
John Searle's 1990 paper, "Collective Intentions and Actions" offers another interpretation of collective action. In contrast to Tuomela and Miller, Searle claims that collective intentionality is a "primitive phenomenon, which cannot be analyzed as the summation of individual intentional behavior". [11]
This category is for articles which deal with the concept of intention or intentional behavior. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
The women who were asked to create specific implementation intentions lost on average 4.2 kg, compared to those who only attended weekly group meetings, who on average lost only 2.1 kg over the 2-month period. [23] In another example, a study sought to increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables in a young-adult population.