In the Circle of Sense and Nonsense: Through a Mathematical Model of Meaning

The terms sense and nonsense indicate important phenomena in social environment. In this paper, we explore the relations and interactions between sense and nonsense with the following three-fold goal: 1. Elaborations of the formal definitions of these concepts. 2. Investigation of the processes of making sense from nonsense. 3. Establishment of the mathematical foundations for a sense-nonsense theory. On this way, we extend the dyad sense-nonsense by introducing the concept no-sense situated between sense and nonsense and by extending the concept sense to the concept poly-sense. In addition, we construct a mathematical model of these concepts and related processes using logical structures such as logical calculus, logical variety and logical prevariety. This approach correlates with the opinion of Leonardo da Vinci who wrote “No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.”