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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?
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