[Revised entry by Graeme Forbes on May 29, 2025.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html]
A verb is transitive only if it can occur with a direct object, and in such occurrences it is said to occur transitively. Thus ‘ate’ and ‘left’ occur transitively in ‘I ate the meat and left the vegetables’, but not in ‘I ate then left’ (perhaps it is not the same verb ‘left’ in these two examples, but it seems to be the same ‘ate’). A verb is intensional if the verb phrase (VP) it forms with its complement is anomalous in at least one…
Read the full article which is published on Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (external link)
