extension - intension

<philosophy of language> distinction between ways in which the meaning of a term may be regarded: its extension, or denotation, is the collection of things to which the term applies; its intension, or connotation, is the set of features those things are presumed to have in common. Recommended Reading: D. Alan Cruse, Meaning in Language: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics (Oxford, 2000).

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