He identified four kinds of meaning or, the total meaning of a word depends upon four factors – Sense, Feeling, Tone and Intention, where sense refers to what is said, or the ‘items’ referred to by a writer; feeling refers to the emotion, attitude, interest, will, desire, etc towards what is being said; tone is the attitude towards the audience/ reader; and intention is the writer’s conscious or unconscious aim or the effect that s/ he is trying to produce.

four distinct realms of meaning, or, to be more precise, the comprehensive meaning of a word hinges upon four facets: sense, feeling, tone, and intention.