Quote: can not drop intensions (attributes) from propositional attitudes; otherwise "w is hunting unicorns" and "w is hunting griffins" are the same

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Yet it is evident enough that we cannot, … Thus, to take a trivial example, consider "w … of w. Correspondingly for the hunting of griffins. … unicorn), y(y finds a griffin) must be distinct. … [i.e., intension], and not the classes [i.e., extension], that were needed in our …   Google-1   Google-2

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