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The question is:  What sort of thing is a connotation?  Is it a sign?  That is to say, is it yet another term?  Or is it something like an abstract attribute, namely, a character, an intension, a property, or a quality?  And while we're asking, does it really even matter?

The question is:  What sort of thing is a connotation?  Is it a sign?  — that is to say, yet another term?  Or is it something like an abstract attribute — a character, intension, property, or quality?  And while we're asking, does it really even matter?

"No" is one answer worth considering.  But then:  Why does it not matter?  What reason might be given that would excuse the indifference?

"No" is one answer worth considering.  But then:  Why does it not matter?  What reason could be given to excuse the indifference?

This is a question that has exercised me since my earliest studies of Peirce.  I can remember discussing it with my philosophy mentor at the time and I distinctly recall having arrived at some conclusion or other, but, alas, I haven't the foggiest notion what exactly my revelation amounted to.  Perhaps that is all for the best, as the vagrancy of memory is frequently better than the vapidity of one's banalytic anamnesia.

This is a question that has exercised me since my earliest studies of Peirce.  I can remember discussing it with my philosophy mentor at the time and I distinctly recall having arrived at some conclusion or other — alas, I haven't the foggiest notion what exactly my revelation amounted to.

These days, I usually try to finesse the trick under the trumped up rubric of a factorization.  So let me excavate my last attempts to explain this business and see if I can improve on them.

These days, I usually try to finesse the trick under the trumped up rubric of a factorization.  So let me excavate my last attempts to explain this business and see if I can improve on them.