intensionalityn.
/ɪntɛnʃəˈnalɪti/ Philosophy.
The state or fact of being intensional. Cf. extensionality n.
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intensionality1937
1937 A. Smeaton tr. R. Carnap Logical Syntax Lang. iv. §71. 259 The difference between the extensionality and intensionality of a language has nothing to do with the difference between the formal and the material treatment.
1944 K. Gödel in P. A. Schilpp Philos. B. Russell 138 Chwistek..has shown that the system of simple types becomes contradictory if one adds the ‘axiom of intensionality’ which says (roughly speaking) that to different definitions belong different notions.
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