The essence of meaning are the relations between concepts which it picks out. It picks out both context (what is implied, both about the world and about the relation to it) and representation (the specific thing to which it refers).
By picking out specific contexts, it embodies assumptions about underlying structures governing context, within which contextualization is posssible. The way it organizes information is itself information, but which cannot be given in terms of representation.
By picking out representations, it also embodies assumptions about the structural content of representations, and about possible relations between representation and context.
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When we say we mean something, what we mean is how the objects relate to other objects within contexts, or represented contexts relating to other contexts.
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Relationships require limits. Limits are not real. Or rather, they are only as real as they are taken as such from within the network of relationships.
Hence the absolute, or that which is not relatedness, cannot be thought.
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