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Towards an Extensional Calculus
of Hyperintensions
Marie Duží
VSB-Technical University, Ostrava
Abstract: In this paper I describe an extensional logic of hyperinten-
sions, viz. Tichý’s Transparent Intensional Logic (TIL). TIL preserves
transparency and compositionality in all kinds of context, and validates
quantifying into all contexts, including intensional and hyperintension-
al ones. The received view is that an intensional (let alone hyperinten-
sional) context is one that fails to validate transparency, compositional-
ity, and quantifying-in; and vice versa, if a context fails to validate these
extensional principles, then the context is ‘opaque’, that is non-exten-
sional. We steer clear of this circle by defning extensionality for hy-
perintensions presenting functions, functions (including possible-world
intensions), and functional values. The main features of our logic are
that the senses of expressions remain invariant across contexts and that
our ramifed type theory enables quantifcation over any logical objects
of any order into any context. The syntax of TIL is the typed lambda
calculus; its semantics is based on a procedural redefnition of, inter alia,
functional abstraction and application. The only two non-standard fea-
tures of our logic are a hyperintension called Trivialization and a four-
place substitution function (called Sub) defned over hyperintensions.
Using this logical machinery I propose rules of existential generaliza-
tion and substitution of identicals into the three kinds of context.
Keywords. Quantifying-in, extensional/intensional/hyperintensional
context, transparency, ramifed type theory, transparent intensional
logic, extensional rules for three kinds of context.
1 Introduction
In this paper I introduce basic fundamentals of an extensional logic
of hyperintensions developed within procedural semantics of Transpar-
ent Intensional Logic (TIL). Only an extensional logic will validate ex-
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