Meanings
- not comparableOf or pertaining to intension.
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These two treatments of the predicate are typical of the two traditions in traditional logic—the intensional and the extensional traditions. Logicians who can be counted among the intensional logicians are Gottfried Leibniz, Johann Lambert, William Hamilton, Stanley Jevons, and Hugh MacColl. Among the extensional logicians are George Boole, Augustus De Morgan, Charles Peirce, and John Venn.
2011 July 20, Edwin Mares, “Propositional Function”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, retrieved 15 Jul 2012
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveused of the set of attributes that distinguish the referents of a given word
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Origin
- Englishintension
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishintensional
Translations
Polish intensjonalny
- intensjonalnyTranslations
Rhymes & wordplay
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intensional. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intensional
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