I have often wondered if those who say that a word does not have
meaning without a context (or is "meaningless without specific
textual contexts,") have for themselves defined the key word they are
using, namely, *meaning* . Therefore I ask you. Is "meaning" the
same as "reference", or is it "concept", or is it something else?
Would you really say that the bare Hebrew words such as $eleg
("snow"), )i$ ("man") and QF+AL "kill" are without *meaning*, like
the word gobbledygook written in Hebrew characters would have been
for the Hebrew mind? If these words have meaning without a context,
would not the same be true with NEPE$?
Best regards
Rolf Furuli
about words being "meaningless without specific textual contexts".