hester@ai.cel.fmc.com (Tom Hester) (01/21/87)
In response to: berke@locus.ucla.edu on inten(s/t)ion, introspection Intension comes from the same Greek root as the English word intense (meanings are more intens(iv)e in intensions), and the distinction between intension and extension goes all the way back to Aristotle. Anybody really interested in Aristotle's characterization of the distinction can send me an E-mail message and I will be glad to reply. Furthermore, semanticists have argued for many years that intensions and intentions are related. See the work of B.C. Van Fraassen for example. Finally, R.J. Faichney is absolutely correct. It was not Freud that side tracked psychology from introspection. Rather it was the "dust bowl empiricists" that rode behaviorism to fame and fortune that did it. "Don't touch that! When you are this far inside the human brain, you don't know what it might be connected to." B. Bonzai Tom Hester