Pedant/connotation

Famous quotes containing the words pedant and/or connotation:

    Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
    Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801)

    The intension of a proposition comprises whatever the proposition entails: and it includes nothing else.... The connotation or intension of a function comprises all that attribution of this predicate to anything entails as also predicable to that thing.
    Clarence Lewis (1883–1964)