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* The [[meaning of life]], a notion concerning the nature of human existence * The [[meaning of life]], a notion concerning the nature of human existence
== Titles == == Titles ==
-*''[[Laughter (Bergson book)|Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic]]'' (1911) by [[Henri Bergson]]+*''[[Laughter (Bergson book)|Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic]]'' (1911) by Henri Bergson
-*''[[Subculture: The Meaning of Style]]'' (1979) by [[Dick Hebdige]]+*''[[Subculture: The Meaning of Style]]'' (1979) by Dick Hebdige
-*''[[Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things]]'' (1991) by [[Stephen Bayley]]+*''[[Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things]]'' (1991) by Stephen Bayley
==Etymology== ==Etymology==
From Middle English ''mening, menyng'', equivalent to ''mean +‎ -ing''. Cognate with Scots ''mening'' (“intent, purpose, sense, meaning”), West Frisian ''miening'' (“opinion, mind”), Dutch ''mening'' (“view, opinion, judgement”), German ''Meinung'' (“opinion, view, mind, idea”), Danish and Swedish ''mening'' (“meaning, sense, sentence, opinion”), Icelandic ''meining'' (“meaning”). From Middle English ''mening, menyng'', equivalent to ''mean +‎ -ing''. Cognate with Scots ''mening'' (“intent, purpose, sense, meaning”), West Frisian ''miening'' (“opinion, mind”), Dutch ''mening'' (“view, opinion, judgement”), German ''Meinung'' (“opinion, view, mind, idea”), Danish and Swedish ''mening'' (“meaning, sense, sentence, opinion”), Icelandic ''meining'' (“meaning”).

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Ars Memoriae: The Theatre (1619) - Robert Fludd  “In the illusory babels of language, an artist might advance specifically to get lost, and to intoxicate himself in dizzying syntaxes, seeking odd intersections of meaning, strange corridors of history, unexpected echoes, unknown humors, or voids of knowledge… but this quest is risky, full of bottomless fictions and endless architectures and counter-architectures… at the end, if there is an end, are perhaps only meaningless reverberations.” --Robert Smithson
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Ars Memoriae: The Theatre (1619) - Robert Fludd
“In the illusory babels of language, an artist might advance specifically to get lost, and to intoxicate himself in dizzying syntaxes, seeking odd intersections of meaning, strange corridors of history, unexpected echoes, unknown humors, or voids of knowledge… but this quest is risky, full of bottomless fictions and endless architectures and counter-architectures… at the end, if there is an end, are perhaps only meaningless reverberations.” --Robert Smithson
The Bouba/kiki effect (1929)
This page Meaning is part of the linguistics series. Illustration: a close-up of a mouth in the film The Big Swallow (1901)
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Illustration: a close-up of a mouth in the film The Big Swallow (1901)

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From Middle English mening, menyng, equivalent to mean +‎ -ing. Cognate with Scots mening (“intent, purpose, sense, meaning”), West Frisian miening (“opinion, mind”), Dutch mening (“view, opinion, judgement”), German Meinung (“opinion, view, mind, idea”), Danish and Swedish mening (“meaning, sense, sentence, opinion”), Icelandic meining (“meaning”).

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