Meningshypotesen

Mening (dvs. betydning) er en emergent egenskap ved et ord eller begrep i en bestemt sammenheng.

Meningen oppstår i interaksjon mellom individuell bevissthet og omgivelsene…

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“The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all the other things we know.
That's why it's almost always wrong to seek the 'real meaning' of anything.
A thing with just one meaning has scarcely any meaning at all.”
— Marvin Minsky (1927-2016)

“First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.”
― Epictetus (55-135)

“The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories when it can, but will manufacture lies when it can’t."
― Jonathan Gottschall

“To know what we think, to be masters of our own meaning, will make a solid foundation for great and weighty thought.”
― Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914)

"In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context".
—Alfred Marshall (1842-1924)

“It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)

"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944)

"On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability."
― Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)

"The meaning of information is given by the processes that interpret it"
― Gregory Bateson (1904-1980)

“Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

“Meaning emerges from engagement with the world, not from abstract contemplation of it.”
― Iain McGilchrist

“Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture?”

“culture – the collectively shared meaning”
― David Bohm (1917-1992)

“Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. ”
― Guy Debord (1931-1994)

“Meaning lies as much
in the mind of the reader
as in the Haiku.”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter

“Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.”
― Richard Powers

“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”
― Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997)