Abelard's emphasis on intentio shows that moral weight attaches to the sincere act of conscientious judgment itself, not to its syllogistic correctness, undermining the deductive model's normative priority.
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How serious or significant a wrong action is; how much it matters ethically.
normative priority(what the statement says the deductive model claims but Abelard denies)
The idea that something is most important or should come first when deciding what is right or what we should do.
syllogistic correctness(what the statement says should not be the main measure of moral worth)
Whether an argument follows the rules of formal logic (syllogism)—a way of checking if reasoning is logically sound, like checking if a math proof works.