histle of &quot;computational information theory&quot; (CIT),
while many people on the scene today have grown up utterly obliviscent.

JD: But these are *not* the meanings of &quot;denotation&quot; or &quot;connotation&quot;,
    I *really* don't need to talk about these provided I can talk about
    what is denoted and connoted.  That is another level of discourse.

Yes, but it is the level of discourse in which we swim,
the one of which we have some immediate grasp, the one
that is &quot;closer to us&quot