These circles represent thedenotation of the terms.
Still, as a matter of fact, an object may be discovered to have a property previously unknown, and this property may be fundamental and co-extensive with the denotation of its name, or even more widely prevalent.
Now, identity of denotation can only be predicated in an affirmative proposition: one premise, then, must be affirmative.
In denotation the genus includes the species; in connotation the species includes the genus.
The reason of our apprehension of the meaning of any word is to be found in a separate potency existing in the letters by which the denotation of the word may be comprehended.
In short, keep the connotation but try not for any denotation of this lay term Shell-shock in the lay mind!
A concept must, in its connotation, be an abstracted attribute, and in its denotation represent a class.
We are more certain of their denotation than of their connotation; and though they may be explained, they cannot be defined.
The so-called nihil privativum and the ens imaginarium do not properly come within the denotation of the term 'nothing.
It must, however, be used only to mark the indefiniteness, indeterminateness, or incompleteness which prevents it from adequately revealing the denotation to which through the nature of its content it necessarily refers.
Thus we have identity of denotation with difference of connotation in each of these equations, and they are so far homogeneous with each other.
But on the other hand, the denotation is the same on both sides in each equation, for such is the nature of all equations, whether binomial or any other kind.
By stripping a word of the connotation and denotation which it shows in many contexts, there is left, as it were, a common denominator; and it is as a result of this logical operation that we assign a meaning to a detached and isolated word.
In either case connotation would have followed denotation up to whatever point the higher receptual (“pre-conceptual”) intelligence of such an ancestry was able to take cognizance of simple analogies.
Here the object was to throw the independent light of philology upon a point which had already been considered as a matter of psychology, namely, the passage of receptual denotation into conceptual denomination.
So primitive, indeed, is nomination of this kind, that I defy any one to show wherein it differs psychologically from what I have called the denotation of a young child, or even of a talking bird.
Now, if all these things are so, we are entitled to affirm that analysis has displayed an uninterrupted transition between the denotation of a brute and the predication of a man.
But the interval between denotation and denomination has now become so narrow that the step from recognizing “Dodo” as not only the object, but also the subject of mental changes, is rendered at once easy and inevitable.
Whether or not they are concepts depends on whether the naming has been an act of denotation or of denomination—conscious only, or likewise self-conscious.
Why should denotation thus always require to precede denomination—or receptual connotation thus always require to precede conceptual predication—unless it be that the one is a further and a continuous development of the other?
But the wider we try in this way to make the denotation of the term the vaguer grows the connotation.
The word in this way acquires an extent of denotation far beyond what it had before; it becomes extended to many things to which it was previously, in appearance capriciously, refused.
If the name be abstract, its denotation is the same with the connotation of the corresponding concrete: it designates directly the attribute, which the concrete term implies.
For this is no more than may happen in the case of any other general name: we may, in reforming its connotation, leave its denotation untouched; and it is generally desirable to do so.
To fix the connotation of a concrete name, or the denotation of the corresponding abstract, is to define the name.
For if the denotation alone were relevant, any other phrase with the same denotationwould give the same proposition.
Thus if we distinguish meaning and denotation in "the author of Waverley," we shall have to say that "Scott" has meaning but not denotation.
Hence, as practical men, we become interested in the denotation more than in the description, since the denotation decides as to the truth or falsehood of so many statements in which the description occurs.
If we call its meaning M', our proposition becomes "Scott is the denotation of M'.
Similarly "featherless bipeds" will have a complex meaning, containing as constituents the presence of two feet and the absence of feathers, while its denotation will be the class of men.
Miss Jones[47] argues that "Scott is the author of Waverley" asserts identity of denotationbetween Scott and the author of Waverley.
Hence it naturally comes to be supposed that thedenotation is part of the proposition in which the description occurs.
One reason for not believing the denotation to be a constituent of the proposition is that we may know the proposition even when we are not acquainted with the denotation.
In more general language Denotation is used loosely for that which is meant or indicated by a word, phrase, sentence or even an action.
Mill, Denotation is equivalent to Extension, and Connotation to Intension.
It is clear that when the given term is qualified by a limiting adjective the Denotation or Extension diminishes, while the Connotation or Intension increases; e.
It demands that words have the power of perfect adaptation to the thought and feeling they express, that words have both the power of denotation and of connotation.
In the following paragraphs, which give distinct pictures, note the coherence secured internally largely by the succession of verbs denoting action and also by the denotation of the words.
A consideration which is of importance in the choice of words, and one with which we shall be concerned later on, is that of denotation and connotation.
But (there is) denotation of the superintending (deities), on account of distinction and entering.
And because there is (separate) denotation of the object and the agent.
Here terminates the adhikarana of 'denotation of the world.
But in ordinary speech the word 'body' is understood to mean the mere body; it does not therefore extend in its denotation up to the Self!
And because there is a (separate) denotation of the object of activity and of the agent.
But (there takes place) denotation of the superintending (deities), on account of the difference and the connexion.
The attributes of consisting of mind, and so on, cannot belong to the embodied Self for that reason also, that there is a (separate) denotation of the object of activity and of the agent.
If the name be abstract, its denotation is the same with the connotation of the corresponding concrete; it designates directly the attribute, which the concrete term implies.
We shall see presently that if we wish to make the connotation or concept clear we must run over the denotation or class, that is to say, the objects to which the general name is applied in common usage.
Inversely, the name of a species has a smaller denotation than the name of its genus, but a richer connotation.
Connotation and Denotation are often said to vary inversely in quantity.
For the denotation may be increased in a sense without affecting the connotation.
A stroller with a French fiddle comes within the denotation of the word: a towel-rail is also called mambro from some fancied resemblance to the fiddle.
This way of analysing propositions is possible, as we have seen, because every statement implies a general name, and the extension ordenotation of a general name is a class defined by the common attribute or attributes.
The ambiguity of the term Denotation helps the confusion in the case of Singular names.
Double or treble the number of attributes, and you do not necessarily reduce the denotationby one-half or one-third.
Here there was no doubt as to the denotation of the word; but in a highly important respect it was ambiguous, because it implied a totally different reaction among the people who used it.
Give two examples of words whose denotation is fixed, but whose connotation or emotional implications would be different with different people.
Now if there is no Denotation in a phrase, how can there arise any Indication?
In places his language is abstract and difficult to follow, but taken as a whole the scene is admirable in its denotationof Posa's manly independence and humane philosophy.
His overruling trait is ambition; and in the denotationof this, as of his whole relation to the Countess Terzky, the influence of 'Macbeth' is obvious.
