Generally speaking, technical actions are human productive actions, that is, intentional actions guided by action plans and learned knowledge, which are executed employing products of previous technical actions (that is, artefacts), with the purpose of controlling and transforming reality in order to shape it according to the dialectics of human needs and desires. This article attempts to give an account of the properties that characterize the technical action qua human intentional productive action, and distinguish it from other types of intentional actions. Its purpose is to describe the basic contents of an ontology of technical action, and a grammar which corresponds to the composition of its respective parts. This article comprises three sections. The first section analyses the content of the intention of technical action. The second one presents the traits that picture the basic structure of technical action. The third section considers two basic aspects that compose the proper grammar of this kind of action.
Technical action; Technical structure; Technical grammar; Ontology; Philosophy of technology