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- adverb philosophy With respect to
intension
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Examples
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Both Travolta and Forest Whittaker were equally bad, I dont know if they were intensionally trying to kill this film or were actually trying to act.
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That statement is intensionally opaque. scythia says:
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- Suggesting, whether intensionally or subconscioulsly that you stick and hang in the race in hopes that your fellow democrat might be shot.
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Generalizing, such a view would entail arranging the respective spheres in such a way that any intensionally impossible world is closer to @ than any extensionally impossible one.
Impossible Worlds Berto, Francesco 2009
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Timaeus 'opening question (“What is that which always is and never becomes ¦?”) can be read extensionally (“What entity or entities are such that they always are and never become ¦?”) or intensionally (“What is it for some entity always to be and never to become ¦?”).
Plato's Timaeus Zeyl, Donald 2009
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Moreover, his first meaning postulate imposes an intensionally rigid (see the next section) interpretation on names.
Names Cumming, Sam 2009
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The definition “Water is H2O,” for example, is intensionally adequate because the identity of water and H2O is necessary (assuming the Kripke-Putnam view about the rigidity of natural-kind terms); the definition is therefore extensionally adequate also.
Definitions Gupta, Anil 2008
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A definition is extensionally adequate iff there are no actual counterexamples to it; it is intensionally adequate iff there are no possible counterexamples to it; and it is sense adequate (or analytic) iff it endows the defined term with the right sense.
Definitions Gupta, Anil 2008
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(WVC 102-03), is that we can in principle represent an infinite set by an enumeration, but because of human or physical limitations, we will instead describe it intensionally.
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics Rodych, Victor 2007
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On the later Wittgenstein's account, there simply is no property, no rule, no systematic means of defining each and every irrational number intensionally, which means there is no criterion
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics Rodych, Victor 2007
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