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second intention

noun

Logic.
  1. intention5b


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鈥淲e don鈥檛 know if it鈥檚 their first or their second intention鈥 to remain in Mexico, Mr. Ram铆rez 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 鈥渇irst intention鈥 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 鈥渟econd intention.鈥

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