PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Intension
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How can i ask whether x is f if i don"t know what x is. Different ways of specifying what you are talking about: Intensional: what the specs are for being a k. Failing to specify what all in k have in common. Lists the several virtues: of a woman, of a slave, etc. a whole swarm of virtues. (72b) We are looking for what all the instances have in common that character in respect of which they ar all the same 72c. Remember that the republic answer to this would be: they all copy the ideal form . Justice isn"t what they all have in common: it"s only one specific virtue: a sub-kind of the kind. We are looking for the defining (necessary & sufficient) characteristics. We want the thing in virtue of which they are all called by the same name (74d) Definitions (like arguments) have to be satisfactory both subjectively and objectively.
