He left it to the viewer to construct a meaning or story, but so situational are the paintings that it is almost impossible to avoid interpreta tion and narrative explanation.
He added, "If no one were going to challenge me, I would say 'a test of truth.' If I had to back it up I'd say anyway, 'a test of sincerity' — that there is a moment, an actual time, when you believe something to be true, and you construct a meaning from these moments of conviction".
I understand that sense of dislocation from an identity imposed by others and the attempt to construct a meaning system that reflects who we want to be.
Given a set S of strings generated from an arbitrary alphabet via concatenation and a meaning function m which assigns the members of an arbitrary set M to the members of S, we can construct a new meaning function μ such that for all s, t ∈ S μ(s.t) = μ(s)(μ(t)) and μ(s)(s) = m(s).
The new experiences are used by the learner to construct a new meaning.
In this model, making sense of PIM involves three processes: (1) reading the PIM, (2) constructing a coherent meaning of the PIM, and (3) responding to the content of the PIM [ 6].
In other words, whereas knowledge is socially constructed as a meaning-making process, identity is the social construction of meaning-making about one's self.
How exactly can one construct a theory of meaning without first saying what it is for a speaker to understand a language?
It was not possible to identify in their interviews neither an effort to construct a socially shared meaning to attribute to death, nor the mere possibility of alternative conceptions.
According to the researchers in the Toronto Group [40], alexithymia should be considered a dimensional construct, meaning a stable personality trait, not a transient state in response to emotionally intolerable events, as McDougall [64] and Krystal [65] have claimed.
