Denotation vs False - What's the difference?
denotation | false |
The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes
(logic, linguistics, semiotics) The primary, literal, or explicit meaning of a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.
(philosophy, logic) The intension and extension of a word
(semantics) Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol
(semiotics) The surface or literal meaning encoded to a signifier, and the definition most likely to appear in a dictionary
(computer science) Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics
(media-studies) A first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
:
*
*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
:
Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
:
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
:
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun denotation
is the act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.denotation
English
(wikipedia denotation)Noun
(en noun)- The denotations of the two expressions "the morning star" and "the evening star" are the same (i.e. both expressions denote the planet Venus), but their connotations are different.
Derived terms
* denotativeReferences
*Anagrams
* *false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}