Conscience vs Intention - What's the difference?
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The moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects one's own behaviour.
* 1949 , , as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist ,
* 1951 , (Isaac Asimov), publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 14, page 175, ¶ 7
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=18 (chiefly fiction) A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices.
(obsolete) Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness.
* 1603 , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet) , act 3, scene 1,
A course of action that a person intends to follow.
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*(Samuel Johnson) (1709-1784) (but see
*:Hell is paved with good intentions .
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*:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
*{{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3
, passage=It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me.
The goal or purpose behind a specific action or set of actions.
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(lb) Tension; straining, stretching.
*, I.iii.3:
*:cold in those inner parts, cold belly, and hot liver, causeth crudity, and intention proceeds from perturbations […].
A stretching or bending of the mind toward of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.
*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:Intention is when the mind, with great earnestness, and of choice, fixes its view on any idea.
(lb) The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.
*1732 , (John Arbuthnot),
*:In a Word, the most part of chronical Distempers proceed from Laxity of Fibres; in which Case the principal Intention is to restore the Tone of the solid Parts;.
(lb) Any mental apprehension of an object.
(lb) The process of the healing of a wound.
*2007 , Carie Ann Braun, ?Cindy Miller Anderson, Pathophysiology: Functional Alterations in Human Health ,
*:When healing occurs by primary intention , the wound is basically closed with all areas of the wound connecting and healing simultaneously.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between conscience and intention
is that conscience is the moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects one's own behaviour while intention is a course of action that a person intends to follow.conscience
English
(wikipedia conscience)Noun
(en noun)- Never do anything against conscience , even if the state demands it.
- [“]Twer is not a friend of mine testifying against me reluctantly and for conscience ’ sake, as the prosecution would have you believe. He is a spy, performing his paid job.[”]
citation, passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience ,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
- Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
- And thus the native hue of resolution
- Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often used with "conscience": good, bad, guilty. * Phrases: To make conscience of, To make a matter of conscience, to act according to the dictates of conscience concerning (any matter), or to scruple to act contrary to its dictates.Derived terms
* consciencelike * conscience money * conscience vote * conscientious * make conscience * pang of conscienceSee also
* synteresisExternal links
* * ----intention
English
(wikipedia intention)Alternative forms
* entention (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Apocryhpha)
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