Heresy and sorcery. Denotation and Connotation? --- Heresy (denotation) was a good reason for the Church to torture and condemn freethinkers, but in some cases the victims were intellectually so innocent that a theological debate about theology was simply not possible. The victims were not all Galileo Galilei or Giordano Bruno.

So, the Inquisitors resorted to another word: "sorcerer" (connotation). Is that a good example of denotation and connotation?

Source author: Petru Dumitriu PetruD@diplomacy.edu