If you have not thought much about iambs and trochees, or denotation and connotation, or synecdoche and metonymy in recent years, you are in for a day tripper's version of literary spelunking.
Leśniewski's early writings are all papers on topics in the philosophy of logic and language, concerned with such issues as truth, denotation and connotation, the status of the laws of logic, and Russell's Antinomy.
Mr. Wellman is an ardent teaser, a writer who always delights in glancing off literal meaning and often in linguistic deconstruction, employing words, parts of words, their sounds, their denotations and connotations in jazzy cacophony.
The competent members of that community understand the denotations and connotations of the otherwise opaque concept by way of shared discourse and shared practice.
This distinction is in some ways reminiscent of the distinction between extension and intension and is inconsistent with John Stuart Mill's (1884) view that proper names have a denotation and no connotation.
[31] Part of the problem is that there are so many philosophical terms used with respect to meaning and reference, e.g., intension and extension, connotation and denotation.
All revised studies agree on the fact that households do not purchase AFVs based on rational factors, such as functional or economic benefits, but to gain access to a variety of denotations and associated connotations behind it.
In the Western literature on the notion of meaning in the Indian tradition, various terms such as "sense," "reference," "denotation," "connotation," "designatum," and "intension" have been frequently used to render the Sanskrit term artha.
Understand that other terms may be used to convey the same denotation or connotation: Understand that other terms may be used to convey the same denotation or connotation: Understand that other terms may be used to convey the same denotation or connotation: Work "toward" accuracy approaching perfection or reasonableness.
Let us refer to the denotation and sense of the words as follows: d[j] refers to the denotation of the name 'John'.
Such predicates have no denotation, and any proposition such as 'this is a unicorn' is false.
