Post #5: Implicit and Explicit Information

Heidegger's belief that "the meaning of a particular thing is enabled by the web of implicit meanings we call the world" can be summed up by saying that, in order to understand something, a person must have some context or background information about it. This information can be as vague as the book's example that trees grow in the ground and are then turned into lumber, providing something for nails to be pounded into with a hammer. It is this sort of flowing stream of consciousness that allows us to understand the world around us.

The concept of a web of implicit meanings relates to the third order of order because it shows how we find things that have multiple ways of being described. For example, a CD can be put on a specific shelf in someone's massive music collection and that person can use multiple "web's of meaning" to find it, such as genre, artist, whether or not it is a favorite CD, or many of the other categories for describing it.

So for my sketch of the web of meaning, I chose the song "Power" by Kanye West. Here is the three "webs" that would help a computer make the connection from this song to myself.

1) <---- I'm a big Kanye fan <---- This is one of my favorites

2) <---- Great choice for The Social Network preview <---- I liked the movie

3) <---- Disses SNL cast in the song <---- I like how he performed it on SNL