‘All versions of externalism have in common that intensions don't determine extensions.’
‘In the language of nominalism, the terms ‘black’ and ‘white’ purport to have mutually exclusive intensions and should therefore have mutually exclusive extensions, which they do not.’
‘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.’
‘‘Inhalt’ stands for content, but is meant here in the sense of cognitive content or meaning rather than stuff, of intension as opposed to extension.’
‘They provide a vehicle for the imaginative extension and intension of space beyond and within the realist scale of the city.’
2archaic Resolution or determination.
determination, purpose, purposefulness, resolve, resoluteness, single-mindedness, strength of will, strength of character, will power, firmness, firmness of purpose, fixity of purpose, intentness, decision, decidedness
Origin
Early 17th century (also in the sense ‘straining, stretching’): from Latin intensio(n-), from intendere (see intend). intension (sense 1) dates from the mid 19th century.
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