Intention

Intention - what one intends to do or bring about.
Intention - the object for which a prayer, mass, or pious act is offered.
Intention - a determination to act in a certain way.
Intention - a process or manner of healing incised wounds [Webster`s Dictionary].

Intention - an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
Intention - the act or fact of intending [Dictionary.com].

An intention is an idea you plan (or intend) to carry out. If you mean something, it's an intention [Vocabulary.com].

Intention - something that you want and plan to do [Cambridge Dictionary].

- 1)are the efficient causes of intended actions, are what rationalize actions, are what promote both the sort of intra-agential, cross-temporal coherence that allows people to take complicated actions over time, and facilitate the sort of trans-agential coherence that allows people to act in concert with one another.
2)Intention is defined in linguistic studies as a speech intent or will of the speaker [1, p. 409];
Conscious or intuitive intent of the addressee, which determines the internal program of speaking and the way it is implemented [2, p. 116];
As a kind of desire: the speaker’s desire to tell something, to request or ask [6, p. 74]; The intent of the addressee and the content of the statement [9, p. 29‒30]; Communicative attitude and the purpose of the utterance [3, p. 29];
The foundation of the typology of speech genres [2, p. 54];

Intention serves as the intellectual headwaters for a certain tradition of contemporary philosophy of action, treats philosophical inquiry into the nature of intentions entirely as a branch of philosophy of mind.8

Sources:

⠀ 1. Bratman, Michael. 2009b. “Intention, Belief, and Practical Rationality.” In Reasons for Action, edited by D. Sobel and S. Wall, 13–36. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Crossref], [Google Scholar]

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Intention. Cambridge Dictionary. Retrieved from: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/intention