intension

Without intension of some sort, words can have no meaning.

In 2000, the building was emptied with the intension to be used as a court.

Also, the intension and the duration of physical exercise were taken into account.

The thing picked out by the primary intension of "water" could have been otherwise.

The extension but not the intension may be empty.

The primary intension of "water" might be a description, such as watery stuff.

Neither intension gives us both a necessary and an a posteriori component.

The intension thus links the signifier to the sign's extension.

When considered according to its secondary intension, water means HO in every world.

We are disposed, as an incurable mental vice, to accumulate intension in terms.

Intension is analogous to the signified, extension to the referent.

Classes - concepts that are also called type, sort, category, and kind - can be defined as an extension or an intension.

In this way, formal concept analysis formalizes the notions of extension and intension.

It means that a firm is earning only a 'normal profit' and has no intension to leave the industry.

See intension for some more discussion.

In logic and semantics, connotation is roughly synonymous with intension.

Meanwhile the Moamorias assembled at one place with hostile intension.

But its intension was very different.

The organization purchases land or accepts land donations with the intension of conserving its natural resources.

Create alternative behaviour to satisfy the positive intension...

Intension and Decision.

Semantics is the study of intension, that is, the intrinsic meanings of words and phrases.

For Sinn, writers have used the terms sense, meaning, intension, connotation, case, and content.

For the song "Intension" by Tool, see 10,000 Days.

The intension of a general term is basically a description of what all dogs have in common; it's what the definition expresses.