Mentics Glossary

SYMBOLIC_MEANING

Definition

Symbolic-meaning, n.. The abstract idea associated with a given symbol.

Comments

A type associates a symbol with an identity (see prototype) or another type, and so it associates the symbol with a meaning - not the symbol’s own meaning, but the abstract-meaning of another concrete part. See Table 8, Symbol & Type, which shows that a type, A, associates a symbol, c, with an identity, B (or another type, B2). Type A is an abstract idea that carries the meaning of not only symbol b, represented by B or B2, but also the new symbol c that Type A is learning.