intentional acts
Actions done knowingly
Intentional acts are actions performed deliberately, with purpose and awareness of what one is doing.
The phrase appears most often in legal and insurance contexts, where it distinguishes purposeful conduct from accidents or negligence: The policy excludes coverage for intentional acts.
An intentional act requires both the will to act and knowledge of the likely consequences.
- altruismPrioritizing others' wellbeing
- planningArranging for future events
- mindfulnessAwareness of the present
- agencyPower to act
- moral agencyCapacity for right and wrong
conscious choice · point · accountability · fraud · volition · intentionality · liability · mens rea · malice aforethought · willfulness · purposiveness · deliberation · on purpose · goal-directed · game plan · decision-making · design · culpability
intentional actsaccidents
Unintended harmful occurrences
mistakes · blunders · oversights · slips · lapses
intentional actsreflexes
Automatic physical responses
reflex actions · knee-jerk reactions · conditioned responses · sleepwalking · tics
intentional actschance events
Unintended happenings, not designed
coincidences · flukes · freak accidents · happenstance · misfortune