Perceived vs Denotation - What's the difference?
perceived | denotation |
Generally recognized to be true.
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(perceive)
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.
As an adjective perceived
is generally recognized to be true.As a verb perceived
is (perceive).As a noun denotation is
the act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes.perceived
English
Adjective
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‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
Derived terms
* perceivednessVerb
(head)- The alert officer perceived a dim shape in the distance.
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.