Term
Meaning
used in 307 texts across the archive
“Meaning, then, is the maintenance of the field of semblances, that is, the condition where all signs are objects and all objects signs, in varying degrees and articulations. Once even something so trivial as a piece of food (where there is plenty) becomes only food and not at all a sign of some mode of sharing, meaning collapses; once even the most abstract or stylized articulation of signs can no longer be “inhabited”—converted into a set of practices—the same thing happens.”
In use
“Meaning is ultimately grounded in ostensivity—to put it crudely, any utterance points at something, tells you what to notice.”
“Meaning is established rather differently in a scientific discipline organized around experimental protocols.”
“Of divine origin, but ultimately its meaning is rational and cognitive.”
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