Definition of Intensions

1. Noun. (plural of intension) ¹

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Definition of Intensions

1. intension [n] - See also: intension

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intensions

intensification chemotherapy
intensifications
intensified
intensifier
intensifiers
intensifies
intensify
intensifying
intensifying screen
intension
intensional
intensional definition
intensional logic
intensionality
intensionally
intensions (current term)
intensities
intensitive
intensity
intensity level
intensity of sound
intensive
intensive-care
intensive care
intensive care unit
intensive care units
intensive management
intensive properties
intensive psychotherapy
intensively

Literary usage of Intensions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Footnotes to Formal Logic by Charles Henry Rieber (1918)
"I have already spoken of these direct and indirect meanings as first and second intensions of propositions. I employ these expressions, first and second ..."

2. The Works of James Harris, Esq. by James Harris (1841)
"Further than this, where there are different intensions of the same attribute, ... Even verbs, properly so called, as they admit simple intensions, ..."

3. The Works of James Harris, Esq. by James Harris, James Harris Malmesbury (1841)
"Further than this, where there are different intensions of the same attribute, ... simple intensions, so they admit also these comparative ones. ..."

4. Lessons in Psychology by Elizabeth Helen Hannahs (1908)
"Would it be of advantage to us to know "intensions" more adequately than we do? ... Notice the sources of "logical intensions:" For some we must go to the ..."

5. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1845)
"... though the same with the quantity of swiftness : because the intensions and remissions of such qualities are but the intensions and remissions of the ..."

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