Meaning as retrospective accounting practice

So, what is the meaning of anything we do?

It would seem that the meaning of anything we have done requires an account, a retrospective telling, that firmly situates our descriptions in understandable forms.

So, to ascertain the meaning of anything you have done, simply provide an account.

But, what about the 'true' meaning, the 'real' meaning?

You will know what the true meaning is -- for all practical purposes. And giving an account of the meaning, well, isn't that as much a part of the meaning making as the action itself?

What about things we will do?

Provide an account.

The real test, of course, is in providing these accounts 'in public' and engaging in practices of 'meaning ratification'.

What one does not really want to do, is engage in these activities in isolation...

Domains of conduct

Domains of conduct -- the settings, places, environments that we traverse, cross, violate, transgress, produce and recognise.

Got interested in this idea when looking at an architectural account concerning 'gates' in traditional Chinese architecture. That is, communities, compounds, collections of dwelling spaces, that are noticable for the use of 'gates'.

My 'gate' (in the most coarse physicalist sense) in the dwelling in which I currently reside consists of two doors -- one that opens directly onto a street and one that is just behind this door. A common feature of English terraced dwellings I'd imagine.

I am quite taken with more contemporary Chinese dwellings -- which have a central courtyard (gated, of course). This allows for more transition space between domains of conduct (e.g., a public domain and a more private domain).

Perhaps I need to get a gated courtyard that I can carry around in public -- or is that what an ipod is for?