Concept
Intension
Overview
In any of several fields of study that treat the use of signs—for example, in linguistics, logic, mathematics, semantics, semiotics, and philosophy of language—an intension is any property or quality connoted by a word, phrase, or another symbol. In the case of a word, the word's definition often implies an intension. For instance, the intensions of the word plant include properties such as "being composed of cellulose (not always true)", "alive", and "organism", among others. A comprehension is the collection of all such intensions.
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Philosophers who discussed Intension
Related ideas
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Quality (philosophy)
- Word
- Idea
- Mind–body dualism
- Mathematics
- Monism
- Mathematical logic
- Reference
- Linguistics
- Lewis Carroll
- Predicate (logic)
- Semantics
- Semiotics
- Aristotle
- Logic
- Subject and object (philosophy)
- Property (philosophy)
- Sign (semiotics)
- Philosophy of language
- Concept
- Definition
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Epistemic modal logic.