| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 35911 |
| QUOTATION: | The intension of a proposition comprises whatever the proposition entails: and it includes nothing else.... The connotation or intension of a function comprises all that attribution of this predicate to anything entails as also predicable to that thing. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Clarence Lewis (1883–1964), U.S. 20th century logician, pragmatist philosopher. repr. in Readings in the Philosophy of Language, pp. 15-42, eds. J. Rosenberg and C. Travis. “The Modes of Meaning,” ch. III, pp. 35-70, An Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation (1946).
Definition of what the author regards as the fundamental mode of meaning. |
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