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Extensional vs intensional orientation

nature
Extensional: start from the facts, the instances, the thing in front of you, and let the words follow. Intensional: start from the definition and force the facts to fit it.

Almost every failure the tradition studies is intensional orientation caught in the act.
rhymes with
sephirahmalkhut
whyBeginning from the world as it stands rather than from what one has decided about it.
tags
extensional · intensional
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