arbimote comments on Deontology for Consequentialists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: arbimote 01 February 2010 07:06:42AM 0 points [-]

Are extensional and intensional definitions related to outside views and inside views? I suppose extensional definitions and outside view are about drawing conclusions from a class of things, while the intensional and inside use specific details more unique to the thing in question.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 03 February 2010 04:46:49PM *  0 points [-]

It seems to me that they are at least somewhat related. Recently, I've been wondering to which degree extensional/intensional definitions, the outside/inside view and the near/far view might be different ways of looking at the same two modes of reasoning.

(I had a longer post of it in mind, and thought I had come up with something important, but now I've forgotten what the important part of it was. :-( )