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Re: [jboske] inner quantifier of e-gadri (was: RE: putative tense scope effects

In a message dated 11/4/2002 11:14:12 AM Central Standard Time, arosta@hidden.email writes:
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I don't know what terminology would be more familiar to you than "extensionally"
and "intensionally" defined sets. An ext.-defined set is one defined by listing its
members -- and they may have no uniquely common property other than their
very membership of the set. An int-defined set is the set S such that every x is
a member of S iff x has property P.

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OK, normal meaning.  But then the problem is that e-sets (and le everythings pretty much) are defined extensionally and then given a label, which may or may not actually apply.  That is, the members are picked first, then the "property".  Or are you making a total change in this pattern here (it doesn't really seem so from other things you say)?