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Meaning (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠always transformational: Capable of transforming that which it touches at a given moment and subject to constant change itself.

Meaning (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an effect of language and can never be said to be in it or somehow prior to it (in the intention of the speaker). When someone says, 'I know what I mean, but I can't put it in words' they are wrong. The meaning of a phrase is never present to the speaker but incommunicable.'.

Meaning (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠essentially transposition, transfer, metaphor, and decentering that is always subject to a pre-given semantic universe.

Meaning (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in a constant process of evolution, and signs always fail to achieve full meaning, given that they carry within them 'traces' of other contexts and thus other meanings (themselves carrying traces, and so on, seemingly, into infinity.

Meaning (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠never stable in a particular object or word, but always in the process of change.