Original: Here it is usually coupled with connotation which is the second level of analysis, being what the denotation represents In logic and formal semantics, denotation always attracts the extension meaning of the intension / extension pair, but the other element genuinely varies.
Simplified: Here it is usually coupled with connotation which is the second level of analysis, being what the denotation represents In logic and semantics, denotational always attracts the extension meaning "in the pair", but the other element genuinely varies.