A label is a claim. Attaching a name to something says: this is what I call it. But meaning is a commitment — it requires a community willing to hold you accountable to what the name refers to, to use it the same way, and to recognize when it is being used differently. Without that community, a label floats free of its referent. You can rename anything; renaming changes nothing about what the thing is.
This is why attaching the word "semantic" as a label is almost self-defeating. The word claims participation in shared meaning — that the signs involved are grounded in common understanding. But that grounding has to be established before the label goes on, not by putting it on. It requires that concepts were derived from how people actually communicate, that relationships were recognized by a community of use, that someone else could arrive at the same interpretation unprompted. Labeling skips straight to the conclusion.
Meaning has to be earned from the other direction.


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