All communication rests on a non-negatable taken-for-granted baseline

Evidence

The being of man is found in lan- guage … by which mankind continually produces and contemplates itself, a reflection of our species being. … Meaning in this view is not representation but a constituting activity whereby humans interactively endow an elastic though resistant world with enough coherence and order to support their purposes. … This is a ritual view of communication emphasizing the production of a coherent world that is then presumed, for all practical purposes, to exist. It is to emphasize the construction and mainten- ance of paradigms rather than experiments; presuppositions rather than pro- positions; the frame, not the picture. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 382 (#expands, via linked claim)

From such sources one can draw a definition of communication of disarming simplicity yet, I think, of some intellectual power and scope: communication is a symbolic process whereby reality is produced, maintained, repaired, and transformed. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 180 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Modern communications stay reliable without shared moral views or personal acquaintance.; Communication constitutes reality rather than merely representing it — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 382; Everyday interaction rests on unproblematic, taken-for-granted world-certainty (+3 more)

Related

• Communication constitutes reality rather than merely representing it (similarity 0.88)
• Communication is a symbolic process producing and maintaining reality. (similarity 0.84)
• Communication does not report reality but inverts the reported relation to it (similarity 0.79)
• Communication succeeds only through shared contextual beliefs that cannot be fully formalized (similarity 0.79)
• Every communication medium depends on shared organic conditions among participants (similarity 0.79)
• Modern communications stay reliable without shared moral views or personal acquaintance. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Everyday interaction rests on unproblematic, taken-for-granted world-certainty #corroborates (0.85)
• Communication constitutes reality rather than merely representing it #expands (0.35) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 382
• Communication is a symbolic process producing and maintaining reality. #expands (0.30) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 180