intention goal

CURIE: gmeow:intentionGoal
IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/intentionGoal
Category: property
Defined by: gmeow:slices/teleology
Box roles: RBox role (What is this?)

The goal at which a desire, intention, or commitment aims — its propositional content. Functional: one mode, one goal; an agent pursuing five goals bears five modes. Sharing is at the Goal: two agents committed to the same outcome hold distinct modes aiming at one Goal individual.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:IntentionalMoment -> gmeow:Goal; functional

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:intentionGoal from gmeow:IntentionalMoment to gmeow:Goal when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

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:IntentionalMoment, gmeow:Goal

Usage Advice

Use when

Use to bind any intentional moment — Desire, Intention, or Commitment — to the single Goal it aims at; the property whose named domain (gmeow:IntentionalMoment) spans both branches.

Avoid when

Avoid aiming one moment at several goals (it is functional — an agent pursuing five goals bears five modes) and avoid duplicating the Goal per agent; sharing happens at one Goal individual.

How to use

Point each moment at exactly one gmeow:Goal and let multiple agents' modes converge on the same Goal individual; decompose composite goals as separate Goals linked by the mereology spine rather than overloading this property.

Examples

ex:planToShip gmeow:intentionGoal ex:reachOrbit.