Meaning (philosophy)

In philosophy—more specifically, in its sub-fields semantics, semiotics, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and metasemanticsmeaning "is a relationship between two sorts of things: signs and the kinds of things they intend, express, or signify".[1]

The types of meanings vary according to the types of the thing that is being represented. There are:

  • the things, which might have meaning;
  • things that are also signs of other things, and therefore are always meaningful (i.e., natural signs of the physical world and ideas within the mind);
  • things that are necessarily meaningful, such as words and nonverbal symbols.

The major contemporary positions of meaning come under the following partial definitions of meaning:

  1. ^ Richard E Morehouse, Beginning Interpretive Inquiry, Routledge, 2012, p. 32.

Meaning (philosophy)

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