The set of things to which an expression applies; to be contrasted with the intension of anexpression (roughly, its meaning). Extension is also not the same as reference—for instance,the term…
That which occupies space; used by, such philosophers as Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz todefine physical bodies. https://youtube.com/shorts/6skKILkK6Fc?feature=share
In contrast to a justification for a claim, where by one attempts to prove the claim is true, an explanation provides an account, usually causal, of a claim already accepted…
The twentieth-century philosophical movement popularized by atheistic existentialist Jean Paul Sartre; but some core elements were developed by nineteenth-century Christian thinker Søren Kierkegaard. https://youtube.com/shorts/5AgvPwc5Rh0?feature=share
The symbolic logic notation used to make claims about the existence of at least one object ina domain of discourse. The notation ∃ followed by a variable is used to…
In symbolic logic, a valid inference in a system of quantifier rules. From a singular sentence,the inference to an existentially quantified claim is valid. The inference is to a restricted…
The assumption that at least one member of the subject class of a universal proposition exists.Aristotelian, or traditional, logic assumes existential import. The modern interpretation doesnot. (See also Categorical proposition.)…
In symbolic logic, a valid inference in a system of quantifier rules. An existential claim is“eliminated” by way of a subproof that assumes a name for the claim in question,…
In formal logic, a disjunction is inclusive, so the expression, “One or the other” includes“…or both.” Exclusivity must be explicitly noted, as in, “One or the other, but not both.”…