Deductive Logic by St. George William Joseph Stock
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extension. But the term 'man' has also a certain meaning, and implies
certain attributes--rationality, animality, and a definite bodily shape: the sum of these attributes constitutes its quantity in intension. 152. The distinction between the two kinds of quantity possessed by a term is also conveyed by a variety of expressions which are here appended. Extension = breadth = compass = application = denotation. Intension = depth = comprehension = implication = connotation. Of these various expressions, 'application' and 'implication' have the advantage of most clearly conveying their own meaning. 'Extension' and 'intension,' however, are more usual; and neither 'implication' nor 'connotation' is quite exact as a synonym for 'intension.' ( 164.) 153. We now return to the division of terms into connotative and non-connotative. 154. A term is said to connote attributes, when it implies certain attributes at the same time that it applies to certain things distinct therefrom. [Footnote: Originally 'connotative' was used in the same sense in which we have used 'attributive,' for a word which directly signifies the presence of an attribute and indirectly applies to a subject. In this, its original sense, it was the subject which was said to be connoted, and not the attribute.] 155. A term which possesses both extension and intension, distinct |
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