Connotation

Connotation is a subjective cultural and/or emotional coloration in addition to the explicit or denotative meaning of any specific word or phrase in a language, i.e. emotional association with a word.

Blog posts

• Rationality and the English Language by Eliezer Yudkowsky
• When Truth is a Trap by David J. Balan
• Sneaking in Connotations by Eliezer Yudkowsky
• When Truth Isn't Enough by Yvain
• Useless Medical Disclaimers by Eliezer Yudkowsky - Inability of most people to adequately process statistical information causes even mentioning of negative possibilities, with probability however small, to produce significant negative affect.

See also

• Antiprediction
• Not technically a lie
• Affect heuristic
• Inferential distance, Scope insensitivity
• Alief