intentional stance

collocation in English

meaningsofintentionalandstance

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intentional
adjective
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/ɪnˈten.ʃən.əl/us
/ɪnˈten.ʃən.əl/
planned ...
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stance
noun[C]
uk
/stɑːns/us
/stæns/
a way of thinking about something, especially expressed in a publicly ...
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(Definition ofintentionalandstancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The caregiver's recognition of the child'sintentionalstance, however, is communicated nonverbally, beginning at birth.
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Finally, the way we see human beings is as continually engaged in constructing their selves by reflexively taking theintentionalstancetoward themselves.
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The recognition of the child'sintentionalstanceby others must then be critical in making the thought "real" for the child.
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Taking theintentionalstanceat 12 months of age.
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A model of the development of self-organization is proposed which has at its core the caregiver's ability to communicate understanding of the child'sintentionalstance.
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Sharing attention and pointing to objects at 12 months : is theintentionalstanceimplied?
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Theintentionalstanceis a detached and functional theory we resort to during interpersonal interactions.
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However, there is an important distinction between taking anintentionalstancetoward something and entering a shared world with it.
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The "intentionalstance" is a useful behavioral strategy by which humans assume that others have minds like their own.
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Most abstract is theintentionalstance, which is at the level of software and minds.
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This development significantly undermines the claims of theintentionalstanceargument.
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This is related to a philosophical tool known as theintentionalstance.
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Theintentionalstancedemonstrates that trust can be validly attributed to human relationships with complex technologies.
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Dennett (see below) explicitly invokes teleological concepts in theintentionalstance.
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The conscious self is taken to exist as an abstraction visible at the level of theintentionalstance, akin to a body of mass having a centre of gravity.
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Dennett argued that it is best to understand human beliefs and desires at the level of theintentionalstance.
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When we predict that the bird will fly away because it knows the cat is coming and is afraid of getting eaten, we are taking theintentionalstance.
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Dennett calls this predictive strategy theintentionalstance.
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The authors suggest that psychopathy may represent a deficit in the phenomenal but notintentionalstance, while people with autism appear to have intact moral sensibilities, just not mind-reading abilities.
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