intensional en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- [ɪnˈtʰenʃənɫ̩] (Australia)
- /ɪnˈtenʃənəl/ (Australia)
- [ɪnˈtʰɛnʃənɫ̩] (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
- /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From intension + -al.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or pertaining to intension.
These two treatments of the predicate are typical of the two traditions in traditional logic—the intensional and the extensional traditions. Logicians who can be counted among the intensional logicians are Gottfried Leibniz, Johann Lambert, William Hamilton, Stanley Jevons, and Hugh MacColl. Among the extensional logicians are George Boole, Augustus De Morgan, Charles Peirce, and John Venn.
2011 July 20, Edwin Mares, “Propositional Function”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, retrieved 15 Jul 2012:
Antonyms
Deriveds
intensional definition · intensionalist · intensionally · intensionality · intensionalism · intensional logic · intensional fallacy
Translations (1)
pl intensjonalny (Translations)