This Is What Meaning Means!

“Meaning” as a signifier gives us access to the Moon-based metaphorical signalling system. Just as light illuminates the Moon on a dark winter’s night, a meaning shines through a word. The simplest means of communicating the meaning of meaning is to revert to the sound for the Moon (*meh₁not). It does not get any more fundamental a sound or semantic portal than meaning. This is what meaning means!

Source: The M-N- Sound · FM Substack (“The Fundamental Meaning of Meanings”)

The climactic statement of the entire M-N thesis. “This is what meaning means!” — the word “meaning” itself contains the M-N sound because meaning IS the Moon-based metaphorical signalling system. The signifier performs what it signifies.

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