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  • noun logic, mathematics The condition of having an intension

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Examples

  • For Grice, the admission that "intensionality seems to be imbedded in the very foundations of language" doesn't preclude "extensionality."

    Post-Secular Conviviality 2008

  • They also have another property: aboutness or intentionality. (not intensionality, and not thinking of contexts in which coreferential terms are not substitutable salva veritate) Represent reality or some part of it as being thus and so.

    Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

  • For example, constructive type theory and explicit mathematics both encapsulate some form of intensionality.

    Set Theory: Constructive and Intuitionistic ZF Crosilla, Laura 2009

  • Frege gave the outline of a theory of intensionality, but no intensional logic in any formal sense.

    Intensional Logic Fitting, Melvin 2007

  • Anscombe had drawn attention to the fact that perceptual verbs satisfy the tests for non-extensionality or intensionality (see the entry on intensional transitive verbs).

    The Problem of Perception Crane, Tim 2005

  • If so, then reports of what a compass indicates exhibit one of Chisholm's features of intensionality, namely coextensive terms are not freely substituable salva veritate in such reports.

    Intentionality Jacob, Pierre 2003

  • That not all reports of intentionality are intensional is a problem for the linguistic view according to which intensionality is the criterion of intentionality.

    Intentionality Jacob, Pierre 2003

  • Still, the point illustrated by nomicity is that the intensionality of a linguistic report is not sufficient for the intentionality of the reported phenomenon.

    Intentionality Jacob, Pierre 2003

  • So it seems as if the intensionality of the report of a phenomenon is neither necessary nor sufficient for the intentionality of the reported phenomenon.

    Intentionality Jacob, Pierre 2003

  • So although reports of the information carried by such physical devices exhibit some of the intensionality exhibited by reports of intentional mental states, the intensionality exhibited by the latter is clearly stronger than the intensionality exhibited by the former.

    Intentionality Jacob, Pierre 2003

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