ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Extensional context

Hey kiddo! Do you know what the word "context" means? It’s a way of understanding what a word or sentence means by looking at the words surrounding it.

Now, let's talk about "extensional context." Imagine you have a toy box with lots of different toys in it. You might speak about the "extensional context" of the toy box when you're talking about all of the toys inside it.

Extensional context helps us understand a word or phrase by looking at all the things that are related to it. In the case of the toy box, the extensional context would be all the toys inside it.

In other words, extensional context is the group of things that belong to a certain category or are related to a certain thing. When we use extensional context, we can get a better understanding of what something means based on all the things that are similar to it.

So, extensional context is like looking at all the things in the toy box to understand what toys are inside it. It helps us understand words and phrases by looking at all the related things around it. Pretty cool, huh?