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Definition of Intension
1. Noun. What you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression.
Generic synonyms: Import, Meaning, Significance, Signification
Derivative terms: Connotational, Connote, Intensional
Definition of Intension
1. n. A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained; as, the intension of a musical string.
Definition of Intension
1. Noun. intensity or the act of becoming intense . ¹
2. Noun. (context: logic semantics) Any property or quality connoted by a word, phrase or other symbol, contrasted to actual instances in the real world to which the term applies. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Intension
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intension
Literary usage of Intension
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Evolution, racial and habitudinal by John Thomas Gulick (1905)
"... intension. The possible combinations of the ten varieties in question, any
one of which is as likely to occur as is any other, are i ,024, ..."
2. The Science of Logic: Or, an Analysis of the Laws of Thought by Asa Mahan (1857)
"The terms extension and intension, breadth and depth, are employed by Sir William
Hamilton to represent these two opposite principles. ..."
3. The Theory of Teaching and Elementary Psychology by Albert Salisbury (1905)
"intension and Extension.—Every class concept may be considered from two points
of view ... The first named aspect constitutes the intension, or Connotation, ..."
4. Philosophical Remains of Richard Lewis Nettleship by Richard Lewis Nettleship (1901)
"THE GENERALITY OF CONCEPTS I. Extension and intension of Concepts. ... The sum
of these elements or marks is sometimes called the intension or comprehension ..."
5. The Principles of Logic by Francis Herbert Bradley (1883)
"If in considering an idea you attend to its content, you have its intension or
comprehension. Its extension may be taken in two different senses. ..."
6. An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought: A Treatise on Pure and Applied by William Thomson (1863)
"That a judgment may be interpreted either in its extension, or intension, ...
Iridium is among lustrous things— or in intension— The notion of some lustrous ..."
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