Meaning is the set of intermeshed concepts elicited in an awareness when some thing or some event is treated with symbolic significance. Any object or event which provokes a response from an organism is meaningful to it. All living things react to certain sights and sounds and smells that have significance for them. Those particular stimuli are meaningful to them. Meaning is the property of relevance and significance that an organism experiences with respect to certain perceptions. Meaning is not to be arrogantly restricted to the domain of human cerebral introspections, where academic linguistic hair-splitting contrives internal nonsense. The human mind is not the only place where existence means something.

Humans are capable of imbuing any perceived phenomena whatsoever with significance...be it a natural event, a side-long glance, a spoken sentence, a political painting, an erotic sculpture, or a set of symbolic flag characters on display. The meaning evoked in different individuals will never be exactly the same. The variations in maturity, culture, education and intellectual bias will ensure that. Their level of existential awareness determines directly the complexity and appropriateness of any concepts evoked. The appearance of a comet will stimulate a different networks of concepts in an astronomer as it will in an astrologer. A rainbow means dissimilar things to a meteorologist and the goblin chairing a conference on gold prospecting. Certainly the concept of ...the xmas faerie...held by a two year old won't have quite the connotations as those held by hormone soaked twenty year olds at an end of year office party.

For language, a subset of the domain of meaningful phenomena, meaning and communication are inseparable. The purpose of a language is to communicate meaning. An individual on the dark side of the world observes a COMET and attempts to communicate the fact by using some sort of language, such as a string of symbolic flags transmitted via space and time. Another individual on the light side sees a RAINBOW and transmits its observation to the side in darkness. Neither may understand the meaning of the communication but if they acknowledge receipt of the message, then further refinement is possible. A continuous feedback loop of communications is the only process whereby individuals or groups can adjust and refine their individual concepts. If the subject of a communication is an approximate count of something numerical then a common meaning can be reasonably expected but a continuous feedback loop will never be enough for some religious or political communications. As well as the maturity and experiences of the participants in any communication, the meaning evoked depends heavily on the staging of the words and whether they are intended to deceive or not. It depends upon the actor, the play, the era and the technology. When we read a report that...the white queen was forked by the black knight... we need to know whether the journalist was at a chess tournament or observing an event in a medieval haystack.

It is not appropriate to use the words truth and falsity with respect to concepts and hence to meanings. Only substance-enhanced armchair eye-glazers promulgate assertions like...Beauty is Truth...