Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the actual object referred to by a linguistic expression.
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- noun linguistics, philosophy Something that is
denoted ; areferent .
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- noun an actual object referred to by a linguistic expression
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Examples
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For Deleuze as for Frege, sense is what is expressed in a proposition; the two senses of “morning star” and “evening star” are two ways in which the same denotatum may be expressed in propositions.
Gilles Deleuze Smith, Daniel 2008
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Turning to dysphemism, the authors provide the following definition: an expression with connotations that are offensive either about the denotatum or to the audience, or both, and it is substituted for a neutral or euphemistic expression for just that reason. [p. 26]
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In the first part, I am not sure that one can say that there is anything "offensive" about a denotatum: Is there anything inherently offensive?
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Surely, the criterion of capitalization is trivial, and, frankly, Grover Cleveland is of much less interest to me than phoenix; yet his name appears as a word in the language, a denotatum, if you want to get technical about it, and there is no justification for omitting his name
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; d i e m, quo quidem infigne allquld is fafturus flt feceritue, hac denotatum plirafi iii afitlqulore S. codice reperias.
Ioh. Aspontani ad Rud. Plimmelium de deitate Iesu Christi [microform] : epistolae quatuor Aspontanus, Joh 1789
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