Infinite Semasiology
Infinite Semasiology The Bottomless Depths of Words, the Inexhaustibility of Meaning, and the Infinite Logos An interdisciplinary philosophical and mystical treatise on the possibility that every word opens into an inexhaustible universe of meanings, interpretations, relationships, and realities. “A word is not exhausted by what it has meant, what it means, or even what it could presently be imagined to mean. Every word stands at the threshold of meanings not yet born.” Abstract Semasiology, the linguistic study of meaning beginning with words and expressions, ordinarily concerns itself with the meanings that linguistic forms possess, the historical processes by which meanings change, and the cognitive and social mechanisms through which meanings emerge. Yet beneath these empirical investigations lies a philosophical question of extraordinary depth: Is the meaning of a word fundamentally exhaustible? This paper introduces Infinite Semasiology , a speculative philosophical ...