193 - Meaning is when information has acquired significance through its utility. This happens when you’ve connected the information to other pieces of information such that it…
n. the cognitive or emotional significance of a word or sequence of words, or of a concept, sign, or symbolic act. This may include a range of implied or associated ideas (connotative meaning) as well as a literal significance (denotative meaning). The study of meaning in language is semantics, and that of meaning in symbolic systems generally is semiotics. —mean vb. —meaningful adj.
Further Reading:
- A User’s Guide to Thought and Meaning by Ray Jackendoff
- A Meaning Processing Approach to Cognition - What Matters? by John Flach and Fred Voorhorst