When can we say that our ideas have meanings?

Question

When can we say that our ideas have meanings?

Answer 1

Doesn't every idea have a meaning?

Answer 2

When they can actually benefit other people.

Answer 3

if they help us practically.

Answer 4

When our ideas are incorporated into how we view people, the world and/or the universe we can comfortably say that our ideas have meaning.

When we take an idea, care about it and begin to treat it as fact that is the time that our ideas begin to have meaning.

Answer 5

We can call an idea an 'idea' only when it has got some sense/meaning. An idea is an impression or knowledge of something. If this piece of knowledge has got some meaning, then we can call it an idea. Infact every sentence has got a meaning, then why not an idea? The vice versa of this sentence is also correct:)

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Answer 6

The second they come into existence.

The significance of mere thought can be easily defended in the fact that thought requires, transfers, and produces energy.  Energy, no matter how small or large, is the single literal thing that connects us and every other single thing in the universe together; energy is the basis of existence... and thought creates energy-- that's why just the act of a thought coming into existence has meaning in and of itself.  Without thought, there is no meaning.  The occurrence of ideas bring forth everything else that follows... because the occurrence of ideas, realized or not, is how we create energy, how we create life.

Answer 7

I would say my idea has meaning if it can excite the imagination of another with respect to the probability of its utility. I think we should not define idea based on whether it turns out successful or not, because otherwise there would be nothing called a failed idea. A failed idea, in my view, had a meaning before it was tried out, although it did not succeed ultimately and that may well be due to mishandling of the idea rather than any inherent defect in the idea itself.

Answer 8

Well......what i would think is that...when...we ourselves put our own ideas into action and watch if they're working or not in our life.....if they do work...they'd sort of have some or the other meaning.....or atleast...the reason behind that idea would be known to us by ''self-experiencing''......

Answer 9

All ideas have meanings.  Usually others may not know about our ideas until we flesh them out in action, either verbal or physical action.  So the threshhold of 'when' could be the overt moment that ideas become actionable.