Abstract

The assumptions of the problem of meaning in communication exhibit a nonlinear development: the problem implicitly appears in antiquity, where is understood as extraction of the meaning that already exists, and has grown nowadays to a central problem of understanding the meaning that combines hermeneutics and analytic philosophy. The sophistical option of relativism of meaning, that admits mutually exclusive ideas, determined the problem of variation of meaning and the question of generation of meaning as unstable process. This manifests itself most clearly in the post-modern “implementation” of simulacra and the transformation of meaning into a networked continuum of communication. The assumptions of the problem of meaning in communication determine the generation of meanings, the understanding and transformation of meanings. All this evolves as an integral real process, compatible to the principle of unity.