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What does intensional mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to intension.
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But there is what philosophers think of as an extensional and an intensional way of describing our perceptions.
In Luis Fariinas del Cerro, editor, Intensional Logics for Programming.
Because autology doesn't genuinely apply to meanings, it cannot function in the intensional treatment of words.
These reasonings extend a general intensional element to an individual that belong to a set-extension, but, it seems that, are non-explanatory.
Deacon would argue that initially words are acquired as indices and only later do they gain intensional properties once symbol-symbol relations are established.
Logics which attempt to display the logical properties of intensional contexts are called intensional logics.

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