It would be easier if you would use a word like "artifact" or somesuch when you 
talk about the model absent it's contextual analogies. E.g. some yahoo back 10k 
years ago draws a picture and some teenage spelunker comes upon it in 2020. 
That picture is better described as "artifact" than "picture".

To reword: the artifact you call "Eric" doesn't intend anything. But when you 
use that artifact to get him to do something, then the artifact+usage _intends_ 
that something. Some may argue that the word "model" shouldn't be used unless 
the usage/context is present. But that's a load of sophistry, I think. People 
will use whatever word they want to use whenever they want to use it. So we 
just have to be flexible and listen generously.

On 1/15/20 12:44 PM, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote:
> To me, you are a model, right?  Whatever you are, it is my model of you with 
> which I am dealing.  So, when you intend something  by a model, it is a case 
> of a model intending a model, right?  So, models intend, right?  So why not 
> just say so, in the first instance.


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