intensionallyadv.
/ɪnˈtɛnʃənəli/ Philosophy.
By way of intension, in an intensional manner.
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1883 F. H. Bradley Princ. Logic 161 If again you emphasize the connection of the differences, you take the judgment intensionally.
1903 Nature 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.
1953 K. Britton J. S. Mill vi. 189 This judgement also must be understood intensionally: i.e. as a connexion of universals which holds without reference to the mere spatio-temporal positions of the instances.
1970 Philos. Q. XX. 43 We may take it that the expression so obtained is formally valid intensionally.
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