Ingarden Roman Witold (1893–1970), the leading Polish phenomenologist, who taught in...

institutional theory of art the view that something becomes an artwork by virtue of...

instrumental conditioning See CONDITIONING.

instrumentalism in its most common meaning, a kind of anti-realistic view...

instrumental rationality See RATIONALITY.

inherent value See VALUE.

innate idea See IDEA.

innatism See CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS.

inner converse See CONVERSE, OUTER AND INNER.

in rebus realism See METAPHYSICAL REALISM.

inscrutability of reference See INDETERMINACY OF. TRANSLATIO. insolubilia, sentences embodying a semantic antinomy...

instantiation See PROPERTY.

instantiation, universal See UNIVERSAL INSTANTIA -. TIO. institution. (1) An organization such...

instrumental sign See SEMIOSIS.

instrumental value See VALUE.

insufficient reason See PRINCIPLE OF INSUFFICIENT. REASO.

intelligible world See KANT.

intension the meaning or connotation of an expression, as opposed to...

intension, compositional See LEWIS, DAVID.

intensionality failure of extensionality. A linguistic context is extensional if and...

intensional logic that part of deductive logic which treats arguments whose validity...

intensive magnitude See MAGNITUDE.

intention, (1) a characteristic of action, as when one acts intentionally...

intention, direct See INTENTION.

intention, first See IMPOSITION.

intention, indirect See INTENTION.

intention, oblique See INTENTION.

intention, second See IMPOSITION.

intentional fallacy the (purported) fallacy of holding that the meaning of a...

intentionality aboutness. Things that are about other things exhibit intentionality. Beliefs...