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Meaning is one of the most difficult and complex concepts we have, studied by semantics (a branch of linguistics) and by the philosophy of language (the theory of meaning[?] in particular--branches of philosophy).

See especially philosophy of language and the meaning of meaning at this point--those articles might well be broken up and put on different pages.

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