Does this mean we can rightfully assume that one who fails to act in accordance with their intent did not actually have that intention? I say no the world is simply flawed. There is great difficulty in bringing one’s conceptual convictions to fruition in reality, even if the actor’s intentions are entirely wholesome. Actions occur in the real world: a person has an intended result, but the result is not always achieved. Actions are events, perhaps carried out primarily by one agent but likely influenced by a number of contextual factors. To say that actions “speak” may be figuratively meaningful, but I think the verb mischaracterizes what it means to act in a significant way. There are two reasons for this, the first dealing with the way the aphorism is worded. This specific use of the expression, I argue, represents the whole of its scope applied in other contexts, it is not true. I accept this use of the phrase there is no sense in saying one thing, only to show in your actions that you did not mean what you said.

We might paraphrase it to mean something like this: if you claim to have one particular belief, yet act in a manner that contradicts that purported belief, then your actions will reveal that the belief was only a farce. “Actions speak louder than words” is an expression that is so commonly used, its truth also seems self-evident.

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