Intention

CURIE: gmeow:Intention
IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/Intention
Category: class
Defined by: gmeow:slices/teleology
Box roles: TBox role (What is this?)

An intentional mode of internal commitment — the agent has settled on pursuing the goal (UFO-C: intention), though no other agent holds them to it. Inheres in exactly one agent (gmeow:intentBearer); aims at exactly one goal (gmeow:intentionGoal); may motivate events (gmeow:motivates). The social grade — committed TOWARD someone — is gmeow:Commitment.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:IntentionalMode

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:Intention as a specialized kind of gmeow:IntentionalMode. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Goal And Intention

Source: slices/core/teleology/examples/goal-and-intention.ttl
Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-teleology-examples-goal-and-intention

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: goals, intentions, and commitments. GMEOW separates the
# intentional moments gUFO keeps distinct: a gmeow:Goal is the SocialObject an
# agent aims at (gmeow:hasGoal); a gmeow:Intention is an intentional MODE borne by
# an agent that aims at that goal (gmeow:intentionGoal) and MOTIVATES concrete
# action (gmeow:motivates → an Event); a gmeow:Commitment is a relator binding a
# committed agent to a beneficiary. The desire-to / intend-to / commit-to layers
# are not collapsed — each is its own first-class moment.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/teleology/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

# --- The intention: an intentional mode borne by Dana, aimed at the goal, that
#     motivates a concrete action (the graduation event).
ex:intention a gmeow:Intention ;
    gmeow:intentBearer  ex:dana ;
    gmeow:intentionGoal ex:degreeGoal ;
    gmeow:motivates     ex:graduation .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:IntentionalMode

Usage Advice

Use when

Use when an agent has internally settled on pursuing a goal but no other agent holds them to it — the middle commitment grade, and the natural source of gmeow:motivates on the events the agent undertakes.

Avoid when

Avoid for mere wanting (use gmeow:Desire) and for resolutions made TOWARD another agent (use gmeow:Commitment, a relator); a resolution made purely to oneself is an Intention, not a Commitment.

How to use

Mint an Intention with one gmeow:intentBearer and one gmeow:intentionGoal; link the actions it explains with gmeow:motivates, and record adoption or abandonment over time as a gmeow:IntentionTenure rather than mutating the mode.

Examples

ex:planToShip a gmeow:Intention; gmeow:intentBearer ex:lillith; gmeow:intentionGoal ex:reachOrbit; gmeow:motivates ex:launchPrep.