Meaning has no first or final form, only endlessly renewed links in a chain.

Evidence

There cannot be a unified (single) contextual meaning. Therefore, there can be neither a first nor a last meaning; it always exists among other meanings as a link in the chain of meaning, which in its totality is the only thing that can be real. In historical life, this chain continues infinitely, and therefore each individual link in it is renewed again and again, as though it were being reborn. … These unending chains of meaning between the self and other, text, and a collective history speak to the larger capabilities of a dialogic pedagogy. While critical pedagogy often seeks to put students into conversation with the world around them, to ask key and critical questions about the systems of power represented in those worlds, dialogical methods honor and respect the ways in which individual students dialogue with text, with their instructors, and ultimately, with themselves. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 414

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘no first or last meaning, chain that is reborn’ passage echoes the Heraclitean/dialogic framing the reader engages around contested, unbounded concepts.