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A denotative meaning depended on empirical verification by observing phenomena or lyrically "things that go bump in the dark.
He describes figures as being words or expressions whose connotative and denotative meanings within the text do not cancel each other out.
Although progress continues to be made in terms of more nuanced, semantics search, the algorithms driving search engines continue to give greater weight to word matching and literal or denotative meaning.
 
 
 
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