The whole body is the organ of touch; but as the hands are made convenient for grasping, to which the infant has an instinctive tendency, and the tips of the fingers are especially handy for touching, they become, by the intension of the mind into them, the special organ for examining things by touch, and getting impressions of qualities obvious to no other sense.
"Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School"
Elizabeth P. Peabody
The technical name for any meaning which is thus individualized is intension.
"How We Think"
John Dewey
The intension of the terms man, river, seed, honesty, capital, supreme court, is the meaning that exclusively and characteristically attaches to those terms.
"How We Think"
John Dewey