Going on the map metaphor. Meaning is the relationships between points on the map. Elevation, distances, terrain…etc.
Matrices of inter-connectivity - relationship.
Now a map like Tolkein’s Middle Earth has meaning - internal, theoretical, abstract, because it certainty has no meaning beyond that.
A map’s meaning is found in the geography it represents - art, semiology.
It gives the destination and the effort it would require to attain it.
This is both where it derives its value and its meaning. The intertwining relationships are the maps of meaning.
The world is full of them.
So anyone that claims the world is meaningless is a moron, or a hypocrite.
What such a buffoon usually means…ha…is that no external agency has given it meaning - has not translated the relationships for the moron. He needs to be given the destination and all the variables.
Subject/Object/objective.
The triangulation of meaning.
Words are the map, representing a geographical place and its relationship with other places.
Now imagine a totally meaningless map. Scribbles, blotches….surreal art.
The fArtist will claim there si hidden, occult meaning, in the meaningless garbage. The gullible moron will not want to expose his idiocy and will claim that he sees it.
The garbage now acquires meaning in tis meaninglessness. It is so void of meaning that the observer can project whatever he desires into it.
A clever fArtist - like hebes - may include some suggestive discernible shapes, to trigger inspiration and bring out the observers needs/desires.
Trash now has value and can be purchased for millions of dollars, based on its meaninglessness. It’s potential to remain open to any interpretation and evaluation…to be given meaning, from inside the one looking at it.
A map not of a real geographical area, nor of a fantasy alternate reality…but a map completely void of meaning, awaiting meaning to be projected into it. A map made to reflect light in particular ways depending on from what direction you come at it. So an interactive map that is constantly changing, and every time open to the psychological state of the individual on that moment.
Value - the distances, elevations, approximating the effort required - relative to the subject’s needs and talents.
Value only makes sense, has meaning, as a triangulation pf subject with objective/destination/goal within world/objective reality.
Meaning is this relationship.