Genesis of Experiential Meaning

Abstract

In the absence of exact criteria to ascertain qualitative matching of the same experiences in different individuals, one can only concede the fact that experience, as a generator and solidifier of meaning, is far from being an ultimate authority to arbitrate its exactness. Reality presented to one individual is never the same as that presented to another. Hence, different individuals do not experience identical but similar elements, and generate not identical but similar meanings thereupon. Every person has their own world, impervious to the worlds of others. And yet, there are invariable and objective elements of meaning streamlined across the whole community, which leads to the conclusion that their origins existed already in the most rudimentary stages of the formulation of meaning. It transpires then, that there is a certain discrepancy between those two notions of objectivity of meaning. In order to avoid the confusion which can ensue from that kind of dualism, it is only logical to operate with two, rather than one, terms.