Intension is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 179 anagrams from letters in intension (eiinnnost).
First recorded in 1595-1605, intension is from the Latin word intēnsiōn- (stem of intēnsiō). See intense, -ion
Propositions can be understood either in extension or in intension.
From this arises the distinctive terms known as the content, extension and intension of concepts, respectively.
The woman's task is less in extension, but great in intension.
Another narrows the intension still further when he defines animal as: "a creature which possesses, or has possessed, life."
In general the greater the intension the less the extension of them.
Essential properties "are those which admit neither of intension nor remission of degrees."
The extension and intension of terms has been referred to in the previous chapter.
The technical name for any meaning which is thus individualized is intension.
Accordingly its intension must be small for it can include only the qualities common to all animals, which are very few indeed.
In the final generalization, extension and intension coalesce.
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