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This failure can be attributed not only to Kircher's erroneous assumption that the hieroglyphs must correspond phonetically to an alphabet but primarily to the fact that he was most interested in the Renaissance conception of a supposed symbolic meaning constituting the deeper significance of hieroglyphs.
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Word meaning constituted a prominent topic of inquiry in three classical traditions: speculative etymology, rhetoric, and lexicography (Meier-Oeser 2011; Geeraerts 2013).
Pressed into an ethically null category, they were compelled to live lives of social death stripped of defining webs of ennobling meaning constituted by narratives of previous histories, renewing presents, and imagined and anticipated futures of flourishing, cross-generational continuation.
The analysis shows that event descriptions and narratives were imbued with moral and emotional meanings, constituting the primary discursive site where participants engaged in 'emotion talk' and oriented to a range of (mostly negative) emotions.
(2a) If we consider a single community of subjects, their common lifeworld, or "homeworld", can be looked upon, by first approximation, as the system of senses or meanings constituting their common language, or "form of life" (Wittgenstein), given that they conceive of the world and themselves in the categories provided by this language.
"Meanings just ain't in the head!" as he put it in "The Meaning of 'Meaning.' " Nor are meanings constituted by definitions or descriptions.
However, Westerståhl (2002) presents a collection of methods, varying from compound basic expressions, to deviant meanings for constituting parts.
He argued that they are morphosyllabic in nature, meaning they constitute a large system of syllables, albeit imprecise, while also conveying meaning.
Inspired by the aforementioned "use" view of meaning urged by Wittgenstein, Ned Block and Christopher Peacocke have developed "internalist" theories according to which meaning is constituted by some features of a symbol's causal (or conceptual) role within the brain, specifically the inferences in which it figures.
Although reference does not exhaust meaning, it constitutes its essential core.
However, as expressing real connections, they are nonetheless confirmable and disconfirmable by experience, as are the objective judgements whose sense meaning they constitute.
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