extensional representation

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

For a logical expression or database query the extensional representation is the collection of all values that satisfy the expression or are returned by the query. This is in contrast to the intensional representation, which is the formulae of the expression or the query expresson in a notation such as SQL.

Used in Chap. 18: page 283; Chap. 21: page 332

Also known as extensional