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From RDF Semantics (2004-02-10) | Glossary for this source

(adj., of a logic) A set-based theory or logic of classes, in which classes are considered to be sets, properties considered to be sets of <object, value> pairs, and so on. A theory which admits no distinction between entities with the same extension. See Intensional .

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