Language, Signs, and the Limits of Meaning

What makes a word mean something? Is it the sound, the context, the person hearing? Or is meaning always a little bit made up?
Can something be deeply meaningful even if it cannot be paraphrased into words?

In this session we’ll pull apart how language actually works: how arbitrary symbols come to carry weight, how Wittgenstein’s idea of “language games” suggests that meaning lives in use rather than definition, and whether music communicates something words fundamentally can’t. We’ll sit with the strange gap between experience and expression, and ask whether that gap can ever really close.

No background needed. Just bring your words (and maybe some skepticism about them).