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denotatum Philos.|diːnəʊˈteɪtəm|
Pl. -tata.
[a. L. dēnotātum, neut. pa. pple. of dēnotāre to denote.]
That which is denoted by some expression; esp. an existent object of reference. (Cf. designatum.)
1938C. W. Morris in Internat. Encycl. Unified Sci. I. 83 Where what is referred to actually exists as referred to[,] the object of reference is a denotatum. It thus becomes clear that, while every sign has a designatum, not every sign has a denotatum. A designatum is not a thing, but a kind of object or class of objects—and a class may have many members, or one member, or no members. The denotata are the members of the class. 1940[see designatum]. 1944M. Weitz in P. A. Schilpp Philos. B. Russell 100 So to interpret the entities of physics means..that they are no longer the denotata of proper names..nor the denotata of descriptions. 1963J. Lyons Structural Semantics iii. 37 The vocabulary of a language is not rightly regarded as a set of isolated symbols standing in a relation of correspondence with a set of discrete and prior concepts or denotata existing in the ‘outside world’. 1968Y. R. Chao Language & Symbolic Systems 67 The word dog means the animal dog. The word is said to refer to, or denote, the thing and the thing is the referent or denotatum. 1968Language XLIV. 40 With adjectives, it is clear that und is obligatory when the coördinated nouns do not refer to the same sample of the denotatum. |