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intensional, a. Philos.|ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl| [f. intension 5 + -al.] Related or pertaining to the intension, or the attributes contained in a concept. Cf. extensional a. 2.
1883F. H. Bradley Princ. Logic 162 Dismissing for the present the intensional reading, let us consider interpretation in Extension. 1903B. Russell Princ. Math. vi. §66. 67 Thus every predicate (provided it can be sometimes truly predicated) gives rise to a class. This is the genesis of classes from the intensional standpoint. 1949S. I. Hayakawa Lang. in Thought & Action (1952) xv. 253 By intensional orientation, ‘capitalist’, ‘Bolsheviks,’, ‘farmers’, and ‘working men’ ‘are’ what we say they are. 1956A. Church Introd. Math. Logic (rev. ed.) I. 28 We shall not have occasion to use variables whose values are propositions, but we would suggest the term intensional propositional variable for these. 1970Philos. Q. XX. 52 The star notation can be made the groundwork of a system of intensional propositional logic in which a wide class of formal principles can be proved. |