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==Note 1==
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<p>It is important to distinguish between the two functions of a word: 1st to denote something — to stand for something, and 2nd to mean something — or as Mr. Mill phrases it — to ''connote'' something.</p>
<p>What it denotes is called its ''Sphere''. What it connotes is called its ''Content''. Thus the ''sphere'' of the word ''man'' is for me every man I know; and for each of you it is every man you know. The ''content'' of ''man'' is all that we know of all men, as being two-legged, having souls, having language, &c., &c.</p>
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<p>(Peirce 1866, Lowell Lecture 7, CE 1, 459).</p>
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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, 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?
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.
==Note 2==
==Factoring Functions==
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==Note 3==
==Factoring Sign Relations==
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==Note 4==
==Nominalism and Realism==
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