"Our own art is as good as any other in the world today," he declared, meaning, of course, his own art, which in later years he absurdly denied had been influenced by French painters like Monet, allowing only for the impact of certain Englishmen.
That is, both denotative and connotative semiotics are planes of meaning making, comprised of systems of resources for meaning, or as Halliday (1978: 53) declares, "meanings are the social system: the social system itself is interpretable as a semiotic system" (his emphasis).
The critical acts he values are not directed at achieving closure by arriving at a meaning; they are, he says, "ludic" and they are "distinguished … by a refusal to declare meaning in any form".
While awaiting trial, Wilde was declared bankrupt, meaning all his belongings, including the portrait, were sold at auction to pay his debts.
The inter-labeler agreement, measured as Fleiss' Kappa, is 0.60 for the declared groups, meaning that there exists good agreement between labelers.
Officials in many cities declared snow emergencies, meaning that cars had to be off streets to allow plowing, which made some last-minute Christmas shoppers unhappy.
This game was not declared "high risk", meaning that there were around 200 police on duty, rather than a potential 1,500.
As an influential filmmaker, Burns is already in the curious and unique position of being able to declare the meaning of so much of history.
It was not until one of his Paris addresses, however, that Carnap officially declared the meaning criterion to be mere confirmability.
