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Definition of Intensional
1. Adjective. Used of the set of attributes that distinguish the referents of a given word.
Definition of Intensional
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to intension. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Intensional
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intensional
Literary usage of Intensional
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mathematical Philosophy: A Study of Fate and Freedom; Lectures for Educated by Cassius Jackson Keyser (1922)
"There is, however, another view of relations,—the intensional view,—in which ...
And this intensional intrinsic sense of the term relation is the sense in ..."
2. The Principles of Logic by Francis Herbert Bradley (1883)
"In certain judgments, where the predicate is not of the " essence " of the subject,
we are warned that an intensional reading is impossible. ..."
3. Towards SQL Database Language Extensions for Geographic Information Systems edited by Vincent B. Robinson, Henry Tom (1993)
"This may simply involve informing the system users of invalid intensional objects
and make these objects unavailable until the database is corrected. ..."
4. McEvoy Magazine by Thomas Jefferson McEvoy (1912)
"... while an intensional use means to describe by naming qualities. ... To define
a term we must regard it in an intensional sense: eg man is a rational ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"It was he who perceived and demonstrated the advantage of adopting the extensional
as distinguished from the intensional view of relations. ..."
6. An Introductory Logic by James Edwin Creighton (1909)
"Explain the Extensional and Intensional use of the following terms: — metal,
chair, man, Caesar, superstition, justice, student, John Jones, island, ..."
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