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%ASSIGNING OR DISCOVERING MEANING PERSONALLY 811105
Human satisfaction pertains to meaning which is
experienced. There are both personal and impersonal
meanings which play roles in human lives. The impersonal
technical meanings of symbols and actions do not play the
central role in human satisfaction. The impersonal
technical meanings of symbols and actions are means of
communicating meanings which are important in human
satisfaction, but they are not themselves the personal
meanings which are essential to human satisfaction. Those
meanings which are central and essential to human
satisfaction are distinctly personal in nature; they are
assigned, chosen, affirmed, etc. as acts of human desire
and will---in ways which bind persons into communal
personal relationships of mutual satisfaction. The
realities which are thus created are not objective
realities pre-existing before a discovery, and named upon
discovery; they are created by acts of desire and will
which are shared in the creation of community through
dialogue.
Disagreements about personal meaning may originate in
the belief that personal meanings are objective realities.
Those who hold such a belief are prone to disagree with
the meanings which people choose to assign and create to
give meaning to their lives. The people who believe in
objective meanings are prone to believe that meanings are
to be discovered in the objective realm, pre-existing
prior to the discovery; real apart from the desires and
choices of the discoverers. To such believers in
objectivity the question is whether or not the discoverer
has found a true reality and described it accurately; and
thus the door is open for serious disagreements about the
meanings which are described and affirmed. According to
their beliefs they are acting properly in disagreeing with
persons who affirm meanings which objectivists have not
chosen to discover and affirm. Objectivists can not
believe that it is by their choice that they have
discovered that they can find subjective satisfaction and
personal meaning in believing that they are discovering
objective meanings which are true; independent of their
choices and desires.
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