ABSTRACT
The chapter first considers expressions in order to show their contrast to indicating signs as well as their functions connected with meaning, objectivity, and intimation. Second, distinctive features of the ideality of meaning are examined such as identity in discourse, communicability, repeatability, and reference to the acts of the subject. Third, the article examines the anchoring of linguistic meanings in an experience that contains the first and founding elements for the most basic predicative forms, modalization, empirical concepts, universal judgments, and coherence of contents. The possibility of regaining this experiential reference through stages of distinction and clarity is also dealt with. In the fourth section, the relationship between meaning and intersubjectivity is analyzed for the purposes of stressing three features of language: a system of signs, inherence in a communication community, and transmission that reaches its highest level of universality in the constitution of the ideal objects of science. Finally, a philosophical context is outlined by contrasting Husserl’s attempt to link language with a broadening of Kant’s Transcendental Aesthetic with Cassirer’s emphasis on Transcendental Dialectic and Wittgenstein’s approach to themes of the Transcendental Dialectic.
