Back Intension German Intensioon Estonian مفهوم (فلسفه زبان) Persian Intensionaalinen Finnish Intensionnalité French 内包と外延 Japanese 내포 Korean Intensja Polish Intensão Portuguese Интенсионал Russian
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.[1] 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.
- ^ Antony Flew (1979). Dictionary of Philosophy. p. 117.