内ない包ほう

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

intension; connotation; conceptual content

Technical use in logic, philosophy, and semantics for the defining content or attributes of a concept, often contrasted with 外延. The English gloss 'comprehension' here is the technical logical term, not ordinary 'understanding'.

• 論ろん理り学がくでは、概がい念ねんの内ない包ほうと外がい延えんを区く別べつする。

  In logic, the intension and extension of a concept are distinguished.

• この語ごの内ない包ほうをもう少すこし明めい確かくに説せつ明めいしてください。

  Please explain the connotation of this term a little more clearly.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

inclusion; containment; containing within

Formal use for something being contained within something else, especially abstract things such as risks, contradictions, themes, or elements. As a する verb, it is transitive: XがYを内包する.

• この制せい度どは大おおきな矛む盾じゅんを内ない包ほうしている。

  This system contains a major contradiction within it.

• その作さく品ひんは複ふく数すうのテーマを内ない包ほうしている。

  The work contains multiple themes.