shared meaning fallacy

The shared meaning fallacy is the illusion that two or more subjects may share the exact same meaning around given word (or any meaning unit pointer).

A meaning unit pointer points to a meaning unit which is inherently subjective, fuzzy and with a lot of complexity. It is virtually impossible for two human-like minds to have the exact same shared meaning

E: Two subjects… read a text or see someone moving its arm up and down or look at traffic sign… and assume that the meaning each of them has attributed to each meaning unit pointer is the same.

There is very significant intersection of minformation footprints, otherwise communication would not be possible. The fallacy is ignoring the minformation footprints that are not shared.

The illusion can be product of lack of theory of mind or awareness of it in regards to the use of the subject‘s semantic field and the naive extrapolation that because there is a significant shared culture, the shared meaning is extensive to the semantic field of all its words.

We confuse the fact that because two subject may read or hear a phrase using the same words (meaning unit pointer) the meaning they will attribute to it will be the same.

The shared meaning fallacy is a type of intellectual hypocrisy.

The more the culture between two subjects differs, the less likely is to fall into the shared meaning fallacy due the shared meaning not being manifested on each interaction and the impossibility to coordinate in the.