how do define Belief?

Intention and action can get incredibly muddied depending on the complexity of examples involved (or else we get far too theoretical and no one understands anyone, really). One problem here is that there is a set definition that over laps. Both actions and intention in this case have "aims", so does that mean they are the same thing?

Let's examine whether action and intention be the same thing in the following scenario:

If i go to take an aspirin from a labeled bottle, take the proper actions to open the bottle and ingest the pill, there is both the action and intention of taking an aspirin.

But what if, unbeknownst to me, the bottle has been replaced with sugar pills because my girlfriend doesn't like me taking aspirin so much so I only "think" im taking aspirin when I'm really not.

Here the intention is definitely to take aspirin, but the action is not congruent with the intention. Both have aims, which I think we can generally agree on. But is an action really still an action, at least in the way of taking the aspirin, if we merely think we are ingesting what we intended but we're really not?

Here this places a schism between what we think is going on versus. what is actually going on. There's no doubt that there is an action of reaching out the hand, pulling the pill out of the package etc but when does it become not the action we intend? Is it when the girlfriend first switches out the aspirin for the sugar pills or is it later on when we finally realize that the pills are not what we thought they were? (she finally tells us about the pills or we somehow find out).

Another scenario:

When girlfriend tells us she has switched the pills, but she really hasn't. Let's say that she still doesn't like us taking aspirin for every small ache we have, so she simply tells us she switched them out for sugar pills, but really hasn't.

In this case the action is congruent with the intention of taking the aspirin, but we don't realize that. So is the action really taking aspirin because that's what's happening, or is it taking sugar pills because that's what we think is going on?

The intention in both cases is to take the aspirin, but whether or not the action is congruent with that depends largely on what we believe of the situation. Or, you can over ride that by saying that it doesn't matter what we believe, because what's really happening (either of unknowingly taking the sugar pills or rightly taking the aspirin) is what matters.

I took the class called "Theory of Action" in university and that is still probably one of the most difficult courses I've ever taken in defining action and intention, then extrapolating on examples that actually make sense.

So, in brief, as we can see it can be pretty simple to have the intention of doing something. Even something more broad or basic as intending to stick to a plan which has a specific outcome. The individual steps that actually happens may not be part of the "plan" but if you achieved the desired outcome...was your action congruent with intention?

I think this is enough to ponder about for now lol