Meaning

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Meaning may refer to:

• Meaning (existential), the worth of life in contemporary existentialism
• Meaning (linguistics), meaning which is communicated through the use of language
• Meaning (non-linguistic), a general term of art to capture senses of the word "meaning", independent from its linguistic uses
• Meaning (philosophy of language), definition, elements, and types of meaning discussed in philosophy
• Meaning (psychology), epistemological position, in psychology as well as philosophy, linguistics, semiotics and sociology
• Meaning (semiotics), the distribution of signs in sign relations
• The meaning of life, a notion concerning the nature of human existence
• Meaning, a 1975 book by Michael Polanyi and Harry Prosch
• The Meaning of Meaning, a 1923 book by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards

Arts and entertainment

• Meanings (album), an album by Gad Elbaz
• "Meaning" (House), a 2006 episode of the TV series House
• Meaning (music), the philosophical question of meaning in relation to music

See also

• Semantics, the study of meaning
• Hermeneutics, the theory of text interpretation
• Linguistics, the scientific study of language
• Logotherapy, psychotherapy based on an existential analysis
• Ontology, the philosophical study of the nature of existence or reality
• Truth, accordance with fact or reality, or fidelity to an ideal
• Meant to Be (disambiguation)
• Proposition (disambiguation)
• Notion (disambiguation)
• Significance (disambiguation)
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