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.

From New York Times

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.

From Project Gutenberg

Still, the second intention is not difficult to guess.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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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