ETAB
2011-11-29 06:15:21
true peers – no, I wouldn’t call meaning in language ‘transcendent’, which is an unfortunate term with its implications of its own internal powers of Will. The meaning in language is ‘symbolic’. [I'm a Peircean semiotician].
As for meaning being ‘continuous’ in a collective, of course it is (Check out Peirce’s ‘Thirdness’). After all, the knowledge base of our species is collective and continuous within the community. It has to be since our knowledge isn’t genetic but learned. So, ‘normative habits’ emerge and develop in a community, dealing with ‘how to live’ and ‘what makes the world tick’.
