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Encyclopedia > Intrinsic

Intrinsic is used to describe a characteristic or property of some thing or action which is specific to that thing or action, and which is wholly independent of any other object, action or consequence.


This quality can be seen in the properties of an object philosophically (Intrinsic and extrinsic properties (philosophy)) or in finance (Intrinsic value). It is also fundamental in understanding Kantian deontological ethics, which is based upon the argument that an action should be viewed on its intrinsic value (the value of the action in itself) with regards to ethics and morality, as opposed to consequentialist utilitarian arguments that an action should be viewed by the value of its outcomes. It also has biological properties; cells that have an action on themselves, or effects from the external enviroment. Ie. Autoiimmunity dieseases (lupus) Quality refers to the inherent or distinctive characteristics or properties of a person, object, process or other thing. ... An intrinsic property is a property that an object or a thing has of itself, independently of other things, including its context. ... Intrinsic value in general, is the argument that the value of a product is intrinsic within the product rather than dependent on the buyers perception. ... Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant (April 22, 1724 – February 12, 1804) was a Prussian philosopher, generally regarded as one of Europes most influential thinkers and the last major philosopher of the Enlightenment. ... In moral philosophy, deontology is the view that morality either forbids or permits actions, which is done through moral norms. ... Ethics (from Greek ethikos) is the branch of axiology – one of the four major branches of philosophy, alongside metaphysics, epistemology, and logic – which attempts to understand the nature of morality; to define that which is right from that which is wrong. ... Morality, in the strictest sense of the word, deals with that which is innately regarded as right or wrong. ... Consequentialism is the belief that what ultimately matters in evaluating actions or policies of action are the consequences that result from choosing one action or policy rather than the alternative. ... Utilitarianism is a suggested theoretical framework for morality, law and politics, based on quantitative maximisation of some definition of utility for society or humanity. ...


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Intrinsic functions must always be external functions: you cannot define the body of intrinsic functions.
Intrinsic functions may only be used in call or invoke instructions: it is illegal to take the address of an intrinsic function.
intrinsic returns a uint value that has the four bytes of the input uint swapped, so that if the input bytes are numbered 0, 1, 2, 3 then the returned uint will have its bytes in 3, 2, 1, 0 order.
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Lewis has in several places (1983a, 1986a, 1988) insisted that shape properties are intrinsic, but one could hold that an object's shape depends on the curvature of the space in which it is embedded, and this might not even be intrinsic to that space (Nerlich 1979), let alone the object.
It is crucial to the proof that Lewis's theory entails that this property is intrinsic that the quantifiers in the theory are possibilist.
Then many dispositional properties might turn out to be nomically intrinsic, capturing nicely the idea that they are in a sense internal to the objects that possess them, while their manifestation depends both on external facts, and on the laws being a certain way.
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