Sentence examples for reference connotation from inspiring English sources

No matter which theory one adopts, elaborating this concept of "truth" involves a cluster of related concepts: sentence, proposition, statement, fact, semantics, reference, connotation, denotation, plus a few others.

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.

[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.

For example, if instead it were worn by a male and female model, it would have a whole other set of references and connotations associated with it and [would] definitely be more a piece of "wearable art" than a piece of "art".

They depict black people in degrading and demoralizing frames of reference and form ugly connotations that portray them as "lazy and simple".

Part of Garcia's "sick feeling" must surely, if we are to take him at his word, stem from his regret at offending people — though his claim that he felt swiftly guilty does undercut the argument that he was unaware of the racial connotations of the reference.

She refuses to give her exact age, for fear of its connotations and disputes several film reference books that say she is 80. "I used to lie about my age, making myself older for roles," she scoffed.

With the rest, if there wasn't a royalty connotation, or a speed or military reference, there were whole cities to honor; in Omaha's case, entire states.

Her fashion is shocking, ripe with sexual connotations and references to the BDSM scene.

We should also bust a myth for Denham: the universal reference to "faith" in official parlance, with its softer connotations of personal belief may be cuddlier than "religion" with its baggage of institutional oppression, but it fools no one.

Shelton and McNamara (1997) argue that, even with reference to egocentric systems, these systems can assume allocentric connotations because are influenced by prominent directions of space.