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See also:DENOTATION (from See also:Lat. denotare, to See also:mark out, specify)
, in See also:logic, a technical See also:term used strictly as the correlative of See also:Con-notation, to describe one of the two functions of a See also:concrete term
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The concrete term " connotes " attributes and " denotes " all the individuals which, as possessing these attributes, constitute the genus or See also:species described by the term
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Thus " cricketer " denotes the individuals who See also:play See also:cricket, and connotes the qualities or characteristics by which these individuals are marked
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In this sense, in which it was first used by J
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