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Intentionality vs Initiative - What's the difference?

intentionality | initiative |

As nouns the difference between intentionality and initiative

is that intentionality is (philosophy) the defining characteristic of the mental state of a person when deliberating about an intention while initiative is .

intentionality

English

Noun

  • (philosophy) The defining characteristic of the mental state of a person when deliberating about an intention.
  • * 1983', , '''''Intentionality : An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind , page 1,
    • As a preliminary formulation we might say: Intentionality is that property of many mental states and events by which they are directed at or about or of objects and states of affairs in the world.
  • * 1986 , , Experimental Phenomenology: An Introduction , page 23,
    • For phenomenology, the central feature of experience is a structure called "intentionality ," which correlates all things experienced with the mode of experience to which the experience is referenced.
  • * 2001', Lois Bloom, Erin Tinker, Ellin Kofsky Scholnick, ''The '''Intentionality Model and Language Acquisition , page 10,
    • Causality in the Intentionality Model is in the agency of the child. It is the child who perceives, who apprehends, who constructs the intentional state, who acts to express it, and who interprets what others do (including what they say) to construct a new intentional state.

    initiative

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A beginning; a first move.
  • A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem.
  • The ability to act first or on one's own.
  • An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting public.

    • Synonyms

    * (issue to be voted on) direct initiative

    Derived terms

    * direct initiative

    Related terms

    * initial * initialism * initialization * initialize * initiate * initiation

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.
  • In which voter s can be brought to the ballot.
  • * John G. Matsusaka, "Direct Democracy and the Executive Branch", in, 2008, Shaun Bowler and Amihai Glazer, editors, Direct Democracy's Impact on American Political Institutions , , ISBN 9780230604452, page 122 [http://books.google.com/books?id=J6swcucKdNIC&pg=PA122&dq=initiative]:
    • The second row shows that initiative states fill more constitutional offices by election than noninitiative states, and the difference is statistically significant after controlling for region and population.

    Antonyms

    * noninitiative

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