What I call extensional self defense mirrors penal code statues in California and other states, known as the “necessity defense.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who's Afraid of Jerry Vlasak?] Reference

X and y have precisely the same members they are said to have the same extension, and sets are often called extensional entities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Properties] Reference

One example is the extensional propositional calculus of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarence Irving Lewis] Reference

These are extensional issues for Iraq, for the Iraqi future.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2007] Reference

Or one might deny that substituting the extensional equivalents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metaphysics of Causation] Reference

Naive probability: a mental model theory of extensional reasoning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference

So far we have considered extensional arguments against internalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reasons for Action: Internal vs. External] Reference

Later, Bentham repeats this extensional understanding of tendencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy] Reference

Lewis was dissatisfied with the extensional truth functional logic of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarence Irving Lewis] Reference

How about worlds at which all extensional connectives behave anarchically?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impossible Worlds] Reference

This claim asserts an extensional equivalence, not an analysis or definition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mohism] Reference

Bolzano's fundamental schema of extensional relations between ideas can already be found in Maass 'Logic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bolzano's Logic] Reference

Such revisions may be regarded as an indicator of the limited ontological neutrality of extensional mereology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Dreams Of Reality, 3] Reference

For instance, it is a theorem of every extensional mereology that parthood amounts to inclusion of overlappers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Dreams Of Reality, 3] Reference

It is, nonetheless, of major significance for a full understanding of (the limits of) non-extensional mereologies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Dreams Of Reality, 3] Reference

Once circular sets are allowed, a strengthening of extensional equality by means of a suitable isomorphism relation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic] Reference

It is useful to distinguish three grades of descriptive adequacy of a definition: extensional, intensional, and sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Definitions] Reference

And I think the Obama administration treats the world as though it were an extensional of the stage of "American Idol.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2009] Reference

The four extensional one-place connectives are thus systematically notated, with negation, the most important, written as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stanisław Leśniewski] Reference

Among the variety of objects in the extensional canon, sets are distinguished by their almost complete absence of structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quine's New Foundations] Reference

The first group comprises what may be described roughly as extensional issues; they have to do with the number of categories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval Theories of the Categories] Reference

However, for specific purposes we may be interested in worlds where also basic extensional principles, such as Adjunction for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impossible Worlds] Reference

Essential and numerical sameness and difference apply directly to things in the world; they are extensional forms of identity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Abelard] Reference

Some of the issues that is being debated and discussed are extensional issued related to the future of Iraq, future generations.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2007] Reference

They support this conclusion by running through a quick circle of what amount to nominal definitions or extensional equivalences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mohism] Reference

According to this doctrine, the concepts and principles with which philosophy is concerned allow for complete extensional overlap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin George Collingwood] Reference

It can be (tediously) checked that the result is valid for all sixteen extensional binary truth-functions substitutible for ˜f™.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stanisław Leśniewski] Reference

(Unlike Clapp, however, Soames doesn't fault the account on the grounds that it fails the constraint of extensional compositionality.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Propositional Attitude Reports] Reference

I can offer nothing but intensional definitions in terms of other words, or extensional definitions expressed in incomplete statistics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Enough For Love]

All of these areas are characterized by extensional tectonics and high geological heat flow and fit in with the rest of the Great Basin.    From Wordnik.com.  [NAS Panel #2: Bristlecones « Climate Audit] Reference

Your relational structures are extensional rather than intentional, and form nodes going into two time-directions, but not toward eternity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orphans of Chaos] Reference

With Rescher and Brandom's work, worlds at which some logical principle involving some extensional connective fails have entered the scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impossible Worlds] Reference

Whereas, West Charlotte used a portion of their facility from time to time for assembly programs and for extensional programs when we had conventions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with William Hamlin, May 29, 1998. Interview K-0169. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

From an ethical standpoint, such acts would be readily justifiable as a form of extensional self-defense on behalf of voiceless, defenseless sentient beings.    From Wordnik.com.  [To dam the torrential rivers of blood and to silence the cacophony of their agonized cries....] Reference

While Friedman and Myhill gave realisability models for extensional set theories, Beeson developed a notion of realisability for non-extensional set theories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Set Theory: Constructive and Intuitionistic ZF] Reference

We have already encountered one of the most powerful sources of extensional opposition to nontrivial versions of reasons internalism in the form of the Central Problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reasons for Action: Internal vs. External] Reference

The literature is also full of extensional arguments against theories which resemble internalism, but on the grounds that they overgenerate, rather than undergenerate, reasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reasons for Action: Internal vs. External] Reference

And we advance the concept of "extensional self-defense" to say that humans can be legitimate proxy agents for animals who rarely can defend themselves against their tormentors. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Averting the China Syndrome] Reference