Intentional Mode

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

The abstract category of intrinsic intentional moments — desires and intentions — that inhere in exactly one agent and aim at a goal. The intrinsic branch of gmeow:IntentionalMoment, and the conative member of the kernel gmeow:MentalMoment family (alongside cognition's gmeow:CognitiveState and epistemics' doxastic states) so an agent's whole mental life is queryable as one family (Principle 15) — gmeow:MentalMoment ⊑ gufo:IntrinsicMode supplies the gUFO branch. Never instantiated directly: instances are Desires or Intentions (the commitment-graded trichotomy; the social grade is gmeow:Commitment, a relator, not a mode).

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:IntentionalMoment, gmeow:MentalMoment

Practical Pattern

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

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:IntentionalMoment, gmeow:MentalMoment

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use as the domain for what is shared by the intrinsic branch — single-bearer inherence via gmeow:intentBearer and intention-tenure — and to query desires and intentions together without the social grade.

Avoid when

• Avoid instantiating it directly (mint a Desire or Intention) and avoid using it for socially-committed cases — committed TOWARD another agent is gmeow:Commitment, a relator, not a mode.

How to use

• Type the moment as Desire or Intention and let it inherit IntentionalMode; the single bearer is gmeow:intentBearer (functional), and adoption over time is reified as gmeow:IntentionTenure.

Examples

• ex:wishForRain a gmeow:Desire; gmeow:intentBearer ex:lillith. # an IntentionalMode by inheritance