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Definition of intension in English: intensionnoun ɪnˈtɛnʃ(ə)nɪnˈtɛnʃən 1Logic
The internal content of a concept. 〔逻〕内包，内涵。常与EXTENSION 相对 Often contrasted with extension Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- They provide a vehicle for the imaginative extension and intension of space beyond and within the realist scale of the city.
- All versions of externalism have in common that intensions don't determine extensions.
- 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.
2archaic mass noun Resolution or determination. 〈古〉决心 Synonyms 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
Derivativesadjective There are sentences which are neither extensional nor intensional; for example, belief-sentences. Example sentencesExamples - But there is what philosophers (at least this philosopher) think of as an extensional and an intensional way of describing our perceptions.
- Deacon would argue that initially words are acquired as indices and only later do they gain intensional properties once symbol-symbol relations are established.
- Logics which attempt to display the logical properties of intensional contexts are called intensional logics.
adverb It is made up of concepts and knowledge primitives intensionally contained in it. Example sentencesExamples - Such a concern description is defined intensionally as a set of regular expressions.
OriginEarly 17th century (also in the sense 'straining, stretching'): from Latin intensio(n-), from intendere (see intend). sense 1 dates from the mid 19th century. Definition of intension in US English: intensionnouninˈtenSHənɪnˈtɛnʃən 1Logic
The internal content of a concept. 〔逻〕内包，内涵。常与EXTENSION 相对 Often contrasted with extension (sense 4) Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- All versions of externalism have in common that intensions don't determine extensions.
- They provide a vehicle for the imaginative extension and intension of space beyond and within the realist scale of the city.
- ‘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.
- 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.
2archaic Resolution or determination. 〈古〉决心 Synonyms 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
OriginEarly 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. |