Today I looked up Intensionality again as I can't seem to get the definition straight in my head. This is what the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy had to say:
"Failure of extensionality."
Helpful already, eh?
Then:
"A linguistic context is extensional if and only if the extension of the expression obtained by placing any subexpression in that context is the same as the extension of the expression obtained by placing in that context any subexpression with the same extension as the first subexpression."
All clear now. Not. I'm too tired to wade through it to determine whether a) it actually makes sense or b) the editor had a brain fart that day.
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Thursday, 16 June 2011
The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy Fail
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Philosophers' jargon... they love it. Personally, I've never been able to get logical positivism safely corraled in my head.
I have an unfortunate knack of not being able to remember anything that doesn't make sense. Logical positivism is one of them :)
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