Meaning of Meaning

      Description on the one hand
   Evaluation on the other hand
  The sound of 2 hands clapping
                or just one?
 
  MEANING & the Meaning of meaning
 
You might think “MEANING”  should be glamorous ,
and I agree.  We all think of MEANING in personal
self-fulfilling terms of desire.
 
What is meaningless, we mostly ignore.And we also
turn-up the feeling that MEANING is personal.
Common sense meaning and  meaning-in-common
does not catch or carry the glow with which we
normally say  Oh—that was so meaningful.  
Etc.
 
But I would have you consider (always for the sake
of argument) meaning in the  fundamentalist reductive
sense of DIFFERENCE and more importantly
(more meaningfully) a difference that MAKES a
DIFFERENCE (as opposed to all the  differences
that make no difference as far as I’m concerned, or
we’re concerned.)
 
              We might  think about MEANING
                      as having 2 hands:
 
1)  the DESCRIPTIVE part           2)   the evaluative or “ETHICAL”
 literally: aesthetic – the “the”           part which places positive or
 in aesthetic means the VIEW.           negative VALUE on a difference
 & so aestheticism is literally             so that it is not just a difference    
 descriptive: look, look, look             (descriptively), but a difference that
 see, see, see: fundamental                 I/we/Us/convention/culture/tradition
 aestheticism.  Difference.                 & common sense sees as significant
                                         
                                MAKING A DIFFERENCE
                           that makes a difference  (ethic )
              or  just a difference that makes no difference (aesthetic)
 
The word-PLAY on “DIFFERENCE” and how it is a
different difference depending on what conceptual
hierarchical “level” we are using/abusing it—is worth
consideration,
 
Because  it is typical of the dubious, double-ness
of  language-in-use: that  it can  both clarify and
confuse,  depending on the linguistic SAVVY of the
                       user/abuser.
 
I meant that but I didn't mean that.

ERROR and PLAY go hand in hand;  contra-diction and
paradox:  got to love them both or I’m screwed!  The
play of  “DIFFERENCE” demonstrates the hierarchical
and contextual levels in communication that compensate
for the  inadequacy of words to indicate  the  fullness of
expression, converse-action,  communication so that the
ATTITUDE  and RECEPTIVITY for the players is
always crucial.