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denotative

[dee-noh-tey-tiv, dih-noh-tuh-tiv] / ˈdi noʊˌteɪ tɪv, dɪˈnoʊ tə tɪv /


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The denotative meanings of these abbreviations vary over a wide range.

From The Guardian Jun. 6, 2013

The only way in which the term reality can ever become more than a blanket denotative term is through recourse to specific events in all their diversity and thatness.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

Besides their use in illustrating the denotative force of propositions, these circles may be employed to verify the results of Obversion, Conversion, and the secondary modes of Immediate Inference.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth

Because the denotative power of all words is dependent on the being of Brahman.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George

Definitions are of three types, denotative, expository, scientific.

From How We Think by Dewey, John




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