Before revision: In semantics, semiotics, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and metasemantics , meaning "is a relationship between two sorts of things: signs and the kinds of things they intend, express, or signify".Richard E Morehouse, Beginning Interpretive Inquiry, Routledge, 2012, p. 32.
After revision: philosophy; more specifically, in thesub-fields of philosophyIn semantics, semiotics, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and metasemantics , meaning "is a relationship between two sorts of things: signs and the kinds of things they intend, express, or signify".Richard E Morehouse, Beginning Interpretive Inquiry, Routledge, 2012, p. 32.