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  • adjective Of or pertaining to denotation.

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Examples

  • This is not to say that an overblown articulation lacks some denotational insight, I stress, but to say it lacks connotational impact.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • They start out as the denotational, objective-sounding term for a marginalized racial or ethnic group, then over time as whatever dominant racial/ethnic group uses them, they get associated with whatever stereotypes said majority has, and then they have bad connotations, and then people think of a new word.

    intertribal: hope I don't break my arm falling out of the treehouse intertribal 2010

  • This is not to say that an overblown articulation lacks some denotational insight, I stress, but to say it lacks connotational impact.

    On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010

  • This ignorance is a sad fact, especially for those who endorse a denotational theory of meaning.

    July 5th, 2007 wheatland_press 2007

  • In contrast, a denotational semantics (Milne & Strachey 1977) provides an interpretation into mathematical structures such as sets or categories.

    The Philosophy of Computer Science Turner, Raymond 2008

  • Is it that denotational semantics, being explicitly based upon mathematical structures such as sets, is mathematical whereas operational semantics is not?

    The Philosophy of Computer Science Turner, Raymond 2008

  • However, even this does not exactly line up with the traditional operational/denotational divide.

    The Philosophy of Computer Science Turner, Raymond 2008

  • What is the difference between operational and denotational semantics?

    The Philosophy of Computer Science Turner, Raymond 2008

  • Some denotational definitions have a recursive model and some do not.

    The Philosophy of Computer Science Turner, Raymond 2008

  • But does it provide us with a wedge to separate operational and denotational semantics?

    The Philosophy of Computer Science Turner, Raymond 2008

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