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[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.
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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.
The distinction between the intension (or connotation) and extension (or denotation) of names was widely acknowledged by nineteenth century logicians.
The distinction between intension and extension is not the same as that between connotation and denotation.
Natural kind terms are a special case of general terms in this respect The idea that something such as a connotation determines the extension of a term is elaborated in Frege's notion of sense and, later, that of intension.
In Home, which brought her to the attention of film lovers, and now Sister (L'Enfant d'En Haut), the Franco-Swiss director Ursula Meier explores borders, and, by extension, as any western enthusiast will know, their political and moral connotations.
By extension, banks such as this sit awkwardly with blood's communitarian connotations of civic indebtedness tied so closely to the nation state (Copeman 2009).
A very important distinction with respect to the use of general terms turns on whether their extensional or intensional attributes are in play; extension (also called denotation) designates the set of individuals to which a term applies, while intension (also called connotation) describes the set of attributes which define the term.
"Basement has an ugly connotation".
The proper connotation is Joe Sixpack.
"The connotation, mainly, is crime".
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