@Meaningness I have this nagging intuition, that the meaning of a word is where it directs your attention. Does it make any sense?
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Yes; that can’t be the whole story, but the intuition seems right that it’s part of it at least!
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Maybe one could say that the meaning of an event is in how it directs your attention and action (where event could be hearing a word)
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Word as an event was as far as I know Derrida's idea
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Goes back to at least Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations
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