intentional

[Joel S. Berson]

Having, if I recollect, once encountered a similar use myself, I had
looked.  How does this differ from OED2 sense 1, "Of or pertaining to
intention or purpose" (so = "purposeful")?

Joel

At 7/16/2007 09:15 AM, Jon L wrote:
>Sounds like the not-quite precisely synonymous "deliberate" would
>work better. "Intentional" sounds plain wrong to me.
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>   JL
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>Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
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>A syndicated column appearing in this morning's newspaper contained
>an odd use (or so it seemed to me) of the word "intentional."
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>The writer is Leonard Pitts (and it's an admirable column!): "Have
>we lost that much capacity to be serious and intentional about our
>own lives and futures?" (_Athens [GA] Banner-Herald_, A6). That
>sense of the word--something like 'purposeful'--doesn't quite match
>any of the meanings recorded in the OED, though it resembles some
>esoteric uses in philosophical discourse.
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>--Charlie
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