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On sense and reference Leech also uses SENSE as a briefer term for his conceptual meaning. This usage is justifiable in that as a technical term “sense” may be used in the same way as “connotation” is used in philosophy. It may refer to the properties an entity has. In this usage, “sense” is equivalent to “concept”. The definition of desk as “a piece of furniture with a flat top and four legs, at which one reads and writes ” may also be called the sense of desk. So the distinction between “sense”and “reference” is comparable to that between “connotation” and “denotation”. The former refers to