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intensionally

intensionally adverb: with respect to intension.

Adverb

intensionally (comparative more intensionally, superlative most intensionally)

  1. With respect to intension.
    • Indeed the whole point of Aristotle’s example of truth depending on being was that the truth of the proposition and the existence of the man are intensionally equivalent, yet there is an asymmetry of dependence.2008 August 13, Jonathan Schaffer, “Truthmaker commitments”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 1, →DOI
    • A term is treated either extensionally as a class of objects or intensionally as a set of properties. The ‘intent’ of the term ‘dog’ includes all the properties that are included in the intent of ‘mammal’. The intensional treatment of ‘dogs are mammals’ interprets this sentence as true because the...2011 July 20, Edwin Mares, “Propositional Function”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, retrieved 15 Jul 2012

Antonyms of intensionally

Forms of intensionally

comparativemore intensionally
superlativemost intensionally

Origin of intensionally

From intensional + -ly.

Questions about intensionally

What does intensionally mean?
Intensionally means with respect to intension.
What part of speech is intensionally?
Intensionally is an adverb.

Words near intensionally in the dictionary

  1. intensionalism
  2. intensionalist
  3. intensionalists
  4. intensionalities
  5. intensionality
  6. intensionally
  7. intensions
  8. intensities
  9. intensitive
  10. intensitometry
  11. intensity

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