User:Dunning/meaning

Meaning is the first and most direct product of

psychotic obsession. Some meaning seems to have an inborn potential within the mind (this is the usual explanation for why small children learn language so rapidly). Instinct

, however, is considered to operate as a reflex without the need for meaning.

The

objective truth, may be difficult to perceive. Solipsism would be a very extreme example of this problem. More often the problem is called personal bias

.

mystical

meaning.

Meaning may be also be communicated subconsciously or unintentionally: as a

oppressed

groups.

Meaning may stand alone or participate in a larger and more or less well developed framework of

rorschach inkblot

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Generic meaning is studied in philosophy, mathematics, and semiotics - especially in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, logic, and communication theory. The study of the social construction of meaning is one of the foundations of sociology (along with official statistics). Fields like sociolinguistics tend to be more interested in non-linguistic meanings. Linguistics, a branch of semiotics, is the study of linguistic meaning - in the fields of semantics (which studies conventional meanings) and pragmatics (studies in how language is used by individuals). Literary theory, critical theory, and some branches of psychoanalysis are also involved in the discussion of meaning. However, this division of labor is not absolute, and each field depends to some extent upon the others.