second intention

noun

Logic.

1. intention5b

Example Sentences

“We don’t know if it’s their first or their second intention” to remain in Mexico, Mr. Ramírez said of asylum petitioners.

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Even then the milk would have a suspicious flavor, or post-mortem smell, I apprehend; it would be the same thing, by second intention, as the surgeons say.

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Still, the second intention is not difficult to guess.

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"Abracadabra is a second intention" is neither true nor false.

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It is the designation of these outward things which forms the “first intention” of names; and it is only at a later stage, when thought comes to observe its own modes, that names, looked upon as predicables and universals, are taken in their “second intention.”

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