This technique isn’t necessarily limited to extensional stuff. Once you know what extension a community of people use a word for, you can analyze what key intensional properties are needed in order to use the word for that thing, and then you can apply those intensional properties to other things outside the domain that the community usually works in.
This technique isn’t necessarily limited to extensional stuff. Once you know what extension a community of people use a word for, you can analyze what key intensional properties are needed in order to use the word for that thing, and then you can apply those intensional properties to other things outside the domain that the community usually works in.