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Full Idea
Intensions are creatures of darkness and I shall rejoice with the reader when they are exorcised.
Gist of Idea
Intensions are creatures of darkness which should be exorcised
Source
Willard Quine (Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes [1955], §II)
Book Ref
Quine,Willard: 'Ways of Paradox and other essays' [Harvard 1976], p.188
A Reaction
Quine seems to be in a diminshing minority with this view. For 'intensions' read 'meanings', presumably.
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