thomblake comments on When Truth Isn't Enough - Less Wrong

91 Post author: Yvain 22 March 2009 08:23PM

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Comment author: thomblake 23 March 2009 06:07:06PM 3 points [-]

I feel I must point out that 'connotation' and 'denotation' tend to be used differently by professional philosophers. 'connotation' refers to intension, while 'denotation' refers to 'extension'. That is, 'denotation' refers to a word's referent (the set of things in the world to which it can refer), while 'connotation' refers to its meaning.