Intensionalism

Quick meaning: Intensionalism is a noun meaning (semantics) The belief that language acquires meaning from thought or belief, which is fundamentally non-linguistic, and that propositions are therefore independent of language.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include intensionalist, propositionalism, intentionalist, contextualist, inclinationism, segregationalist.

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