How Do Words Get Their Meaning? | The Meaning of Meaning

Podcast: Sleep Stories from the Pioneers · Pioneers of Human Behaviour

Opublikowano: 2026-10-08

How do words get their meaning? Settle into The Meaning of Meaning, a thoughtful sleep story about the moment a sound becomes a name, a name becomes an idea, and the world begins to make sense. The evening star shines in the west after sunset and the morning star in the east before dawn. They carry different names, though both are the planet Venus. Beside a honeysuckle-covered well-house, cold water runs over Helen Keller's hand while Anne Sullivan spells a word into the other. Tonight we follow the question of meaning through the lives...