Further, we have the concept of subjective intensions. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
Those males caught have been lured in, this is as sick as the so called intension they had in mind. From Wordnik.com. [Progressive U - The new media voice for students] Reference
The content of an expression in a context determines a corresponding intension, which is a function from possible worlds to extensions. From Wordnik.com. [Again] Reference
Are there then any terms which possess no intension?. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Propositions may be read either in extension or intension. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Definition is unfolding the quantity of a term in intension. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Hence follow intension and frequency in all the duties of it. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
It will simplify matters to bear in mind that the intension of. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
The above remarks will have made it clear that the intension of. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Here we have increased the extension by decreasing the intension. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
As the intension increases the extension decreases, and vice versa. From Wordnik.com. [The Classification of Patents] Reference
How is it ready at every breath to unbend and let down its intension!. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
It is not meant to apply to the extension and intension of the same term. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
To define a term is to unfold its intension, i.e. to explain its meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Roughly speaking, therefore, proper names are devoid of meaning or intension. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
From this it follows that any term which possesses no intension cannot be defined. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
In the latter case it is indifferent whether we call the quantity extension or intension. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Again, the term 'not-fish' must be understood either in its intension or in its extension. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
In this case, therefore, extension and intension coincide, and the term is non-connotative. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Three years after immigrating, Amin Bhawani says he has no intension of going back to India. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2007] Reference
From another point of view, however, proper names possess more intension than any other terms. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
A term which possesses both extension and intension, distinct from one another, is connotative. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
For here, while the terms are coincident in extension, they are far from being so in intension. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Thus a logical whole is a whole in extension, while a metaphysical whole is a whole in intension. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
This, however, is the acquired intension of a term, and must be distinguished from the original intension. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
We have seen that there are some proper names which, in a rough sense, may be said to possess no intension. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
She says her intension was that it be "an earnest and loving presentation of something I fell in love with.". From Wordnik.com. [Cherie Louise Turner: Maira Kalman at the Contemporary Jewish Museum: A Life as Art] Reference
When employed as common terms, abstract terms possess both extension and intension distinct from one another. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Other designations have a higher degree of intension, as when we say 'the present prime minister of England,'. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
In a negative proposition, however, the predicate, though still used in intension, must be regarded as distributed. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
A predicate which coincides both in extension and intension with its subject is exactly what is meant by a definition. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
This is said with regard to the original intension of proper names; their acquired intension will be considered later. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
In a series of terms which fall under one another, as the extension decreases, the intension increases, and vice versâ. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
And if the two terms coincide in extension, the predicate must either coincide also in intension with the subject or not. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Such terms as this have a definite amount of intension, which can therefore be seized upon and expounded by a definition. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Thus a particular complexion, colour, height, creed, nationality cannot form any part of the intension of the term 'man.'. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
A term which possesses no intension (if that be possible) or in which extension and intension coincide is non-connotative. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
"Motors" in intension means instruments to convert some form or manifestation of energy into periodical or cyclical motion of a body. From Wordnik.com. [The Classification of Patents] Reference
It has been laid down already that, in the ordinary form of proposition, the subject is used in extension and the predicate in intension. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
The attempt to take the predicate in extension, instead of, as it should naturally be taken, in intension, leads to some curious results. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
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