[*Original date – 19 December 2018]
Basic idea: each individual creates a “plane of meaning” when viewing something. That’s why when an author writes a book, there’s nearly infinite ways to interpret it. The author can claim that someone is misinterpreting it, but that’s only from the pov of his plane of meaning.
One plane of meaning isn’t necessarily more “correct” than the other. For example, just because an author didn’t intend for something to have additional meaning doesn’t mean that the additional meaning isn’t actually there. (e.g. The blue curtains may just be blue to the author, but does in fact change meaning from the plane of meaning of the reader. This reminds me of why in high school english, whenever we wrote a paper, we were told to never say “the author implies this when he writers…” We don’t know what the author actually means. By saying that he implies something means that we’re assuming that he has the sane plane of meaning as us.)
The more similar one’s plane of meaning is to another, the closer (spacially if we were to make a physical representation) they are too each other. This makes it easier to make connections between the two planes.
If two planes are separated by too far of a distance, direct connections cannot be made. Though it is possible two distant planes can indirectly form a connection by forming a direct connection a third plane of meaning located between them.
There can also be non-parallel planes of meaning. This causes two different planes of meaning to exactly agree on some things (at the points where they intersect) while completely disagreeing on others. (ex: pro vs anti gun groups: both agree that school shootings are bad, but the answer for this problem is completely different depending on which side you ask).
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