| 释义 |
extensionally, adv.|ɛkˈstɛnʃənəlɪ|
[See -ly2.]
By way of extension.
1903Nature 3 Sept. 411/1 A class may be defined either extensionally, by an enumeration of its terms, or intensionally, by the concept which denotes its terms. 1935Mind XLIV. 152 An abstract deductive structure capable of interpretation not only extensionally, for example as the traditional two-valued calculus of truth-values, but also intensionally, as a calculus of unasserted propositional meanings. 1951Z. S. Harris Methods in Struct. Ling. 17 The element X is thus associated with an extensionally defined class consisting of so many features in so many of the speech occurrences in his [sc. the linguist's] corpus. 1964E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. vii. 155 Like classes, relations can be considered intensionally or extensionally. |