denotata

The semantic confusion could be easily avoided if people would just recognize there are two distinctly different denotata involved:

The Volokh Conspiracy » Constitutional “Is” Versus Constitutional “Ought” — A Brief Reply to Barnett and Jost: 2009

At a first approximation, Goodman's claim that “denotation is the core of representation” (1976, 5) means that pictures are pictorial labels for their subjects, individuals or sets of individuals, analogously to how names or predicates or verbal descriptions are linguistic labels for their denotata.

Goodman's Aesthetics Giovannelli, Alessandro 2005