Sentence examples for intensional definition from inspiring English sources
noun
A definition that gives the meaning of a term by specifying all the properties of the things to which the term applies.
But he characterizes Hui Shi's example as a "definition," when in fact a fascinating aspect of the story is how the Chinese theoretical scheme employs no notion of (intensional) definition.
SKC specifically does not restrict its applicability to a purely extensional (object) or intensional (schema) definition of ontology, since its purpose is to support useful processing of extensions using intensional knowledge for all parties.
It is useful to distinguish three grades of descriptive adequacy of a definition: extensional, intensional, and sense.
For, given Lewis's definitions of intensional entities in §2.1.3, it follows that certain intuitive propositions, properties, and relations do not exist.
A crucial component of Montague's analysis of natural language is the definition of a tensed intensional logic (Montague 1974, 256), which is an enhancement of Church's type theory.
Frege gave the outline of a theory of intensionality, but no intensional logic in any formal sense.
When definitions are put to an epistemological use, intensional adequacy is generally insufficient.
O'Brien and Lyman (2003 135) argued that empirical-type definition obscured historical relationships between Clovis and Dalton types, and that intensional paradigmatic classification and cladistic analysis alone could reveal it.
To formalize the abstractionist notion of a possible world and to pick out the actual world, four auxiliary definitions are needed: Given these we have: and the irreducibly intensional character of the truth condition becomes evident.
Reference, modal, and intensional notions.
8. Anaphora in Intensional Contexts:: Craige Roberts.
