intension

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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 230.

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  1. noun The state or quality of being intense; intensity.
  2. noun The act of becoming intense or more intense; intensification.
  3. noun Logic The sum of the attributes contained in a term.

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  • What gives unity to a class is solely the intension which is common and peculiar to its members. —  My Philosophical Development
  • When the number of classes concerned is finite, we can pick out a representative arbitrarily from each of them, as is done in a General Election; but, when the number of classes concerned is infinite, we cannot make an infinite number of arbitrary acts of choice, and we cannot be sure that a selection is possible unless there is some intension which secures the desired result. —  My Philosophical Development
  • There is a further consequence, namely, that we cannot manufacture an intension which shall be common and peculiar to a given set of enumerated objects. —  My Philosophical Development
  • But I think structurally our intension is to keep it essentially where it is right now.
  • I want to tell you that when all the hype of Twilight started I had no intension or desire to get involved. —  Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider
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  1. Latin intēnsiō, intēnsiōn-, from intēnsus, stretched; see intense.

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  1. = Spanish intension = Portuguese intensão = Italian intensione, from Latin intensio(n-), a stretching out, from intendere, past participle intensus, stretch out: see intend, intense.
 

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