army1987 comments on Sequence Exercise: "Extensions and Intensions" from "A Human's Guide to Words" - Less Wrong Discussion
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Intensional:
From the easiest to the hardest: apple, green, wire, shoe, hope, politician
Extensional:
From the easiest to the hardest: green, wire, politician, shoe, apple, hope
Apple was much easier for to define intensionally than extensionally because the membership criterion is straightforward, but I can't think of any specimen of apple the listener is likely to have seen. Politician was the other way round because there are lots of well-known people or classes of people who I'd consider to be politicians, but I can't think of a good-enough criterion.
(How damn hard is it to get the list markup to work?!?!)