Saturday, July 10, 2010

Meaning and documents

As it relates to documents as expressions of meaning, meaning can either be constructed when creating the document or derived when one interacts with it.

Meaning can be defined as a subjective interpretation of an objective instantiation, namely a document.

Document is further defined as an instantiation that has been captured in some form or medium, which could be void of explicit a-priori meaning, underlining the reality of possible a-posteriori assignment of meaning to the creation of a document. This is exemplified in the multitude of cases when original documents have served purposes different to those for which they had been originally created.

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