Can we talk about or even conceive of meaning existing outside the context of language? I guess there a couple ways of thinking about this question that I’m curious about, and I’m curious what philosophers have discussed this problem.
When I talk about “non-linguistic meaning” I guess I’m thinking about a couple different possibilities:
Meaning or meaningfulness in the parts of our experience (or maybe subjectivity, maybe unconscious) that escape language or that we can never fully put into words
Meaning or meaningfulness entirely outside of our experience/subjectivity, i.e in the world of things-in-themselves
Meaning or meaningfulness that escapes the particular character of any given language, but which can be (roughly) referred to in communications between different languages/cultures.
I hope that it’s clear what I’m getting at and sorry for any vagueness in my own language. Thanks in advance for any replies!