>>Too big a question? Too vague a question?

yes,  and yes . . . second one first:   to philosophy [or at least
to many philosophers] ALL questions are too vague and the
standard opening gambit is always to define, refine, delimit
e.g,:  do you mean "propositional" meaning?; if so,  what counts
as propositional meaning?; what do images propose?; does an
image of, say, a dog simply "illustrate" the [connotative] idea
of dog [or dogness] or does it propose/assert that "there IS
a [denotative] dog"? . . .and so on into the night

so, because of this. and because meaning so readily lends itself
to this sort of thing, it becomes so big a question that some of us
figure that right now we hardly have the time or energy to go
back to these fields of inquiry yet again

but they are damned good questions

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