intension

NOUN
  1. what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression
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How To Use intension In A Sentence

  • Deacon would argue that initially words are acquired as indices and only later do they gain intensional properties once symbol-symbol relations are established.
  • In broad terms, two sentences are intensionally isomorphic if and only if their corresponding elements are L-equivalent.
  • They provide a vehicle for the imaginative extension and intension of space beyond and within the realist scale of the city.
  • That not all reports of intentionality are intensional is a problem for the linguistic view according to which intensionality is the criterion of intentionality. Intentionality
  • Uncle Sam has no intension flame of war out but to pour oil on it.
  • This paper considers the intension, expression and causes of China's fiscal contingent liability and proposes some solutions.
  • In chapter 5, attack capability is classified to high intension and low intension based on connectivity.
  • The truth makers for such counterfactuals must be either (a) the intensions of the agent that affects the selection, or (b) laws that determine how the relative fitness of having the traits would be selected in a possible world where the actual coextension doesn’t hold. 24 Against Darwinism
  • There are sentences which are neither extensional nor intensional; for example, belief-sentences.
  • On the other hand, two sentences have the same intension if they are logically equivalent, i.e., their equivalence is due to the semantic rules of the language.
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