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  • adjective Not intentional.

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non- +‎ intentional

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Examples

  • Edward George, who said, ` ` What we have here is a series of nonintentional misrepresentations.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • In an instance where you change from a nonintentional act to an intentional act.

    CNN Transcript Jan 27, 2009 2009

  • This would mean that God had to at least know all the (nonintentional) events prior to the appearance of the virus and set things up to end up with the virus or God would have had to intentionally determine all the events themselves, including quantum indeterminate events.

    Behe challenges Miller 2007

  • Since 1954 he has often employed chance operations and other nonintentional, as well as intentional techniques, when composing verbal, musical, theatrical, and multimedia performance works.

    Jackson Mac Low greenintegerblog 2008

  • Nonetheless the theory of modernity still remains in his continued use of systems theory and its understanding of nonintentional integration.

    Jürgen Habermas Bohman, James 2007

  • In a few of these cases, however, Socrates goes on to ask whether these states must be of something “that is” rather than something “that is not,” a clarification that would be pointless for nonintentional relatives.

    Intentionality in Ancient Philosophy Caston, Victor 2007

  • On several occasions Socrates explicitly brings nonintentional cases in order to explain his point, such as parents, children and siblings, and doubles and halves.

    Intentionality in Ancient Philosophy Caston, Victor 2007

  • If large and complex modern societies can no longer be integrated solely on the basis of shared cultural values and norms, new nonintentional mechanisms of coordination must emerge, which take the form of nonlinguistic media of money and power.

    Jürgen Habermas Bohman, James 2007

  • The mixed sort of account that Block calls "quasi-representationism" is a version of strong representationalism, since it does rule out qualitative features that are both nonintentional and nonfunctional.

    Representational Theories of Consciousness Lycan, William 2006

  • Harman precisely denies the existence of mental paint, but Block holds that, in particular, he can introspect the nonintentional, nonfunctional items that he calls "qualia" in a sense quite different from our own.

    Representational Theories of Consciousness Lycan, William 2006

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