We have repeatedly seen how analogies and mappings give rise to secondary meanings that ride on the backs of primary meanings. We have seen that even primary meanings depend on unspoken mappings, and so in the end, we have seen that all meaning is mapping-mediated, which is to say, all meaning comes from analogies. This is Gödel’s profound insight, exploited to the hilt in his 1931 paper, bringing the aspirations embodied in Principia Mathematica tumbling to the ground.
