However the postmodernists go further to suggest that because there is no intrinsic connection therefore there is no connection at all - and words can never really communicate for this reason. The idea that a replica can replace an original. In the work of Baudrillard we find the idea that the whole world has been replaced by a simulation of itself - so that we can never really know reality. The idea that meaning is obtainable by reducing ideas and thoughts to their basic structures which can then be analysed. This was very important in the study of linguistics in the early 20 th Century.
Structuralism suggests that meaning is perfectly definable.
Subjective The idea that the perception of the individual is the closest we may get to knowing truth. Hence something can be true for one person and not true for someone else. See also Objective above. A big buzz word usually taken to mean let anything go. Christians badly need to reclaim the proper meaning of this word - allowing other points of view without having to agree and with all parties being open to discuss and disagree.