The Analysis Of Meaning And Value In Action

The second condition would be that the subject must be quite prepared and ready at all times to associate the object with yet another object, so that the experience of observing the meaning would be able to effectively imply the idea of the object. (Markovic, 1984) Meaning can also be derived from the various social practices that an individual generally follows during the course of his life, with various other people. For example, according to theories of social practice, the specific manner in which one engages with the world are produced and then reproduced, so that everyday activities are set in the social system of shared resources that every human being finds himself in. in the same way, theories of identity are primarily concerned with the social formation of the individual, and also with the basic cultural interpretation and meaning of all his relationships, social interactions, and membership rituals. Some examples are the rite of passage that all human beings go through at some time of their lives or the other, and also the numerous and varied social categories of an average human society, like for example, gender, class, ethnicity, age, and other forms of organization and association. (Wenger, 1999) .

             According to Dummett, the meaning of a sentence, for example, must be derived form its 'assertibility condition', rather than from its 'truth condition'. Therefore if one were to derive meaning form a sentence, or from something that someone has said, then one must perforce know its basic assertibility condition in order to derive meaning from it. (Williamson, 2002) According to the so called 'Dialectical Theory of Meaning', developed in the days of socialism, a sort of dialectical synthesis of all different theories of meaning was attempted, and the ultimate result was that 'meaning' as such is nothing but an extremely complicated and complex relationship, wherein the subject is able to relate to an objective content, through a set of syntactic rules, which in turn would give rise to an 'intentional object' within a particular pragmatic and practical context.

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