Intensionalism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The belief that language acquires meaning from thought or belief, which is fundamentally non-linguistic, and that propositions are therefore independent of language. uncountable

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

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

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From intensional + -ism.

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