The indeterminancy of meaning: on the connection between ontological reality, nonsense, and linguistic criticism

The article analyzes the problem of semantic ambiguity. It reveals a correlation between ontological reality, nonsense, and language criticism in the context of the relationship between language and subjectivity. The idea of semantic ambiguity as a basic characteristic of language, indicating its semantic openness and incompleteness, is considered. The problem of giving meaning is analyzed, which leads to the conclusion that recognizing the semantic incompleteness of language calls into question ontological reality as the main criterion for the meaningfulness of an utterance and shifts the emphasis to the subjectivity of the meaning-making process. It is traced how, in the process of interpretation, entities that are “ontologically unreal” – not possessing and not characterized by a “mode of givenness” – this “mode” is metaphorically prescribed by the subject based on the linguistic logic they already practice. The phenomena of nonsense and language criticism are considered, their epistemic relations are revealed, as well as their role in the processes of cognition and meaning-making; The function of imagery in the construction of ontological reality is designated.