[MD] Heads or tails?

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Ian]
A lot of "definition" is social - authoritatively documenting accepted meanings
in usage. As well as creating a defintion for an intellectual reasoning purpose.

[Arlo]
Looking at the MOQ's levels, and seeing the emergentist relationship among
them, I'd say instead that "definition" arises out of collective social
activity, yes, but they are intellectual patterns nonetheless.

[Ian]
Meaning is surely spread across all levels, like value. We could "define"
particular forms of meaning, which could be associated with particular levels
and contexts ? I'm not sure we can reserve the word "meaning" to mean any one
of them alone.

[Arlo]
No, not "meaning" in the sense of "has value". "Meaning" in the sense of
formalized abstract representation I would place within the domain of
intellectual patterns.