The confusion at the heart of much analytic or linguistic philosophy over the correct interpretation of concepts and the terms (words) used to name them is perhaps nowhere more obvious than in the term "meaning."
Simple dictionary definitions
Languages - Bedeutung, sens, significatio, νόημα,
And for "sense" - Sinn, sens, sensu, έννοια
C.K.Ogden and I.A.Richards book "The Meaning of Meaning." (Six editions from 1923 - shortly after translating Wittgenstein's Tractatus into English - to 1946)
The "meaning" of any word, concept, or object is different for different people, depending on their information about (their knowledge of) the word, concept, or object.
This may be closest to Wittgenstein's picture theory of meaning?
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