intendswhether
Intendswhether is a theoretical operator proposed in linguistics and artificial intelligence semantics to capture a speaker or agent’s intention to determine the truth value of a proposition. It combines notions of intentional action with interrogative or epistemic content, signaling a planned information-seeking activity rather than a settled judgment. In formal analysis, intendswhether is treated as a functional head that takes a proposition or embedded clause as its complement and yields an agent-centered interpretation about forthcoming inquiry.
Syntax and realization are typically discussed in formal notation rather than everyday speech. In many accounts,
Semantics and pragmatics of intendswhether emphasize the speaker’s goal of resolving φ. Its presence can modify how
Examples (notation-based): intendswhether(P) denotes the agent’s plan to determine whether P is true. Informally, one might