Timeline for What is the word for a thing with meaning?
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| Mar 20, 2022 at 21:30 | comment | added | vergilvsyn | I did some more reading. Things are more complex than expected. See the update up top for details. | |
| Mar 13, 2022 at 5:46 | comment | added | vergilvsyn | After reading a bit about semiotics it seems that the "thing" I refer to is a signifier and the "meaning" is the signified. The pair of (signifier, signified) is a sign. So it appears that ("thing", "meaning") = (signifier, signified) = sign. Is this correct? | |
| Mar 13, 2022 at 3:13 | comment | added | causative♦ | @vergilvsyn you might use the word "signifier" if you prefer. | |
| Mar 13, 2022 at 2:33 | comment | added | vergilvsyn | I was writing an essay and kept repeating "an event, idea, statement, place, etc." That phrase is referring to the "thing" in my initial question. The idea is that a person has a personal knowledge base. The thing emerges from that knowledge base, and upon encountering that thing the person can think about its meaning, its uses, its implications, its relations to other things, etc. All this is the "meaning" of the thing. Is sign still the best word? (Perhaps something about surrounding knowledge?) | |
| Mar 6, 2022 at 6:53 | history | answered | causative♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |