Intensional, related to
intension
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 s ...
, may refer to:
Intensional
* in philosophy of language: not extensional. See also
intensional definition
In logic, extensional and intensional definitions are two key ways in which the objects, concepts, or referents a term refers to can be defined. They give meaning or denotation to a term.
An intensional definition gives meaning to a term by sp ...
versus extensional definition
* in philosophy of mind: an intensional state is a state which has a propositional content
* in mathematical logic: see
intensional statement
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 s ...
. See also extensionality, and also intensional definition versus extensional definition
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Intensional logic
Intensional logic is an approach to predicate logic that extends first-order logic, which has quantifiers that range over the individuals of a universe (''extensions''), by additional quantifiers that range over terms that may have such individu ...
embraces the study of intensional languages: at least one of their functors is intensional. It can be contrasted to extensional logic
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Intensional fallacy, committed when one makes an illicit use of Leibniz's law in an argument
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Musical form
In music, ''form'' refers to the structure of a musical composition or musical improvisation, performance. In his book, ''Worlds of Music'', Jeff Todd Titon suggests that a number of organizational elements may determine the formal structure of a ...
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