Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or quality of being intense; intensity.
- noun The act of becoming intense or more intense; intensification.
- noun Logic The sum of the attributes contained in a term.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology, the origin of a new variety, race, or species from individuals which are restricted from free interbreeding with their kind.
- noun Intensity, quantity, or degree of a quality, action, or effect.
- noun The act of making intense; intensification.
- noun In logic, a term used by Sir William Hamilton for the sum of the characters given in the definition of a term: intended to replace the term comprehension.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained.
- noun Increase of power or energy of any quality or thing; intenseness; fervency.
- noun (Logic & Metaph.) The collective attributes, qualities, or marks that make up a complex general notion; the comprehension, content, or connotation; -- opposed to
extension ,extent , orsphere .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun logic, semantics Any property or quality connoted by a word, phrase or other symbol, contrasted to actual instances in the real world to which the term applies.
- noun dated A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression
Etymologies
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Examples
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The content of an expression in a context determines a corresponding intension, which is a function from possible worlds to extensions.
Again 2009
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For in the ordinary and natural form of proposition the subject is used in extension, and the predicate in intension, that is to say, when we use a subject, we are thinking of certain objects, whereas when we use a predicate, we indicate the possession of certain attributes.
Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock
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The reason of this is that we know material objects far better in their extension than in their intension, that is to say, we know what things a name applies to without knowing the attributes which those things possess in common.
Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock
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One which coincides in extension without coinciding in intension, that is, which applies to the same things without expressing the whole meaning, of the subject, is what is known as a Proprium or Peculiar Property.
Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock
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Those males caught have been lured in, this is as sick as the so called intension they had in mind.
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Somehow, based on its sense (intension, meaning) a designating phrase may designate different things under different conditions ” in different states.
Intensional Logic Fitting, Melvin 2007
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I have no intension of denigrating any sacred books.
Mike Ghouse: Sikhs and Muslims Can Come Together For Guru Nanak's Birthday Mike Ghouse 2011
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I have no intension of denigrating any sacred books.
Mike Ghouse: Sikhs and Muslims Can Come Together For Guru Nanak's Birthday Mike Ghouse 2011
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Specifically, exercise trains the brain to think, feel, and perceive in the way that is chosen (by default or intension) during the exercise.
Jacques Henri Taylor: Training Your Body Is Training Your Mind Jacques Henri Taylor 2010
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Does Obama know that if/when Repuke scum take back the WH that they have every intension of charging him of take crime?
billifer commented on the word intension
No, it wasn't my intention to list intention.
January 5, 2007