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Quotes About Denotation

My artist name is actually my real name - Denzel Curry.
~ Denzel Curry
All names mean something.
~ Salman Rushdie
I like Quintorris. It means 'Gladiator.'
~ Julio Jones
We know fewer words, and the ones we know are less beautiful. The words we've lost tend to be connotative, and the ones we've gained tend to be denotative. I've never seen modem used in a poem.
~ Anne Fadiman
When a general name stands for each and every individual which it is a name of, or in other words, which it denotes, it is said by logicians to be distributed, or taken distributively. Thus, in the proposition, All men are mortal, the subject, Man, is distributed, because mortality is affirmed of each and every man.
~ John Stuart Mill