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Meanings of intension in English

Portuguese
significado
Catalan
connotació
Spanish
sentido

What you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression.

significado
Russian
интенсионал понятия
Portuguese
intensão
Catalan
intensió

Property or quality connoted by a word, phrase, or another symbol.

интенсионал понятия
Antonyms
Examples for "extension"
Examples for "extension"
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But certainly an extension would be better than 'no deal', he said.
Reuters
2
The minority Conservative government has promised a Parliamentary vote on any extension.
Reuters
3
The extension of credit lines to individuals and businesses…subject to financial stress.
The South African
4
Soccer:Ryan Giggs has signed a one-year contract extension, Manchester United announced today.
The Irish Times
5
War is simply the extension of politics, according to Carl Von Clausewitz.
The Irish Times
Usage of intension in English
1
However, investors said a significant escalation intension would cause worries to set in.
Reuters
2
After all, there was not even the slightest dishonest intension in my mind.
My Life and My Efforts
3
In this case, therefore, extension and intension coincide, and the term is non-connotative.
Deductive Logic
4
The predicate, however, need not always be used in intension, e.g.
Deductive Logic
5
It must not be my intension, to embellish the ugly parts.
My Life and My Efforts
6
Roughly speaking, therefore, proper names are devoid of meaning or intension.
Deductive Logic
7
Propositions can be understood either in extension or in intension.
Logic: Deductive and Inductive
8
Here we have increased the extension by decreasing the intension.
Deductive Logic
9
Then he ostentatiously and with the widest publicity declared his intension to make restitution.
Great Fortunes from Railroads
10
From this it follows that any term which possesses no intension cannot be defined.
Deductive Logic
11
To define a term is to unfold its intension, i.e.
Deductive Logic
12
A term which possesses both extension and intension, distinct from one another, is connotative.
Deductive Logic
13
Propositions may be read either in extension or intension.
Deductive Logic
14
Again, the term 'not-fish' must be understood either in its intension or in its extension.
Deductive Logic
15
From another point of view, however, proper names possess more intension than any other terms.
Deductive Logic
16
Are there then any terms which possess no intension?
Deductive Logic
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Translations for intension
Intension through the time
Intension across language varieties
United Kingdom
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