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One of the greatest terrible technical names of all time has got to be the philosophers who knew than "intention" was already a word but decided that the opposi
by earthboundkid 7y ago
One of the greatest terrible technical names of all time has got to be the philosophers who knew than "intention" was already a word but decided that the opposite of "extension" should be "intension" because WHY SHOULDN'T WE JUST USE HOMOPHONES FOR SIMILAR BUT SUBTLY DIFFERENT CONCEPTS FML
- yters 7y agoSo that's what that means! I remember reading a philosophy article using that word and not being able to make heads or tails of it, constantly thinking "how is intension related to intention?"