Word.ws English Dictionary

Hintikkian

Hintikkian adjective: of or pertaining to the work of Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher and logician.

Adjective

Hintikkian (comparative more Hintikkian, superlative most Hintikkian)

  1. Of or pertaining to the work of Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher and logician.
    • Hintikkian erotetic logic is thoroughly intentional and hence adapts well to the intentional contexts of teaching.1988, Charles J. B. Macmillan, James W. Garrison, A Logical Theory of Teaching: Erotetics and Intentionality, Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 80

Forms of Hintikkian

comparativemore Hintikkian
superlativemost Hintikkian

Origin of Hintikkian

From Finnish Hintikka + -ian.

Questions about Hintikkian

What does Hintikkian mean?
Hintikkian means of or pertaining to the work of Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher and logician.
What part of speech is Hintikkian?
Hintikkian is an adjective.

Words near Hintikkian in the dictionary

  1. Hinterzarten
  2. Hinthada
  3. Hinthi
  4. Hintikka set
  5. Hintikka sets
  6. Hintikkian
  7. hinting
  8. hintingly
  9. hintings
  10. hintline
  11. Hinton

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Hintikkian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Hintikkian.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hintikkian. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.