Meaning (n.) is not a unity that comes before or after the text, but an irruption, an always unstable revelation on a more or less undermined ground embedded in a plural unity... it paradoxically imposes itself through the recurrence of non-sense, distortion, ambiguity and contradiction.
Meaning (n.) is part of the struggle of the ego to establish and maintain an identity (which is precarious to the extent that it depends upon that which it must exclude, that is, meaning).
Meaning (n.) is purposive and communicative... it has little to do with the causality which is fundamental to empirical science.
Meaning (n.) licenses inference: a gain in it is reason enough to go beyond what direct experience shows.
Meaning (n.) is always relative, Bain argued: every experience is a passage from something else, so every name must have two senses or every sense two names.