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On your point about meaning as a peculiarly mental construction, I’m not sure it necessarily follows that if (1) the world is changing and (2) language is/can be be inchoate and vague, true meaning comes from the mind. To be clear, I agree with your premises and your conclusion here, but it’s not necessarily a relationship that follows as a maxim. So far as we refer to meaning that is constructed in a situation, the data of a situation only needs to be workably static and workably defined - meaning is defined by ‘context’ in that sense. To go further is to identify the mind with the nature of the world at its most basal, as though discovered characteristics automatically inform how the mind must operate. But, I digress. I’d say meaning is identifiably mental because it is mental. As you say/allude, meaning is at least premised on the mind identifying itself, which is personality. Meaning isn’t situational nor is it space-dependent: that’s the key here. The mind only understands itself in absolutes, not as a contingent thing. If u wanna know more about contingency and necessity you should read Jacques maritain degrees of knowledge

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