Meaning of intensionalism | Babel Free

Definitions

The belief that language acquires meaning from thought or belief, which is fundamentally non-linguistic, and that propositions are therefore independent of language.

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Examples

“The first step in showing the irrelevance of Mates's problem is to separate⟳ Frege's intensionalism from intensionalism per se .”

“Intensionalism in modern logic and linguistics begins in the way he demonstrated the point⟳. For as "the Morning Star" and "the Evening Star" have⟳ different senses—i.e., objective linguistic content—so do statements.”

“It is sometimes supposed that extensional propositions—in particular Russellian propositions, which are adopted in some neo-Millian views about proper names—are incompatible with intensionalism and presuppositionalism.”

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