 A non-connotative term is one which signifies a subject only, or an attribute only. A connotative term is one which denotes a subject, and implies an attribute.  An Introductory Logic - Page 68by James Edwin Creighton - 1909 - 520 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Willard Van Orman Quine - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical - 1941 - 308 pages
...happen to have well-recognised names they may be ignored. The unfortunate phrase just referred to was " a connotative term is one which denotes a subject and implies an attribute." Hence when an attribute is what is denoted there seemed to be nothing left for the name to connote.... | |
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