On the other hand the sign, or such sign system as language, serves the function of communication or information transfer. Relationship between information and sign is easy to notice but hard to define accurately. Given the situation of a significant but also unclear dependence between sign and information, there appears the necessity to explain the nature of the relation between sign and information. In order to make such attempt, one needs to identify those elements of sign theory and information theory which would allow us to determine their relationship. The basic property of the sign is that sign points to something different than itself, transcendent to it.
Meaning is an important element of representation.
Sign represents something different than itself due to the meaning. Therefore, defining basic properties of the meaning is important for the description of representation structure although on the other hand a complete explanation of these properties can be done within the framework of a holistic understanding of the function of representation. Those aspects seems to be of complementary character and neither of them can be reduced to the other. Description of sign-related phenomena based on a relation consisting only of the vehicle and the meaning of the sign does not give the possibility of giving full consideration to both objective and content aspects of representation. In this concept both the object of sign and the meaning are not self-contained elements but ingredients of the relation and are given fully only through references to other components of representation.