Each mind evolves, uniquely, a diferent network of meanings. "The worlds of thought that we appear to like the best are those where goals and actions seem to mesh in regions large enough to spend our lives in. [...] Minds also make up pleasant worlds of practical affairs--which work because we make them work, by putting things in order there."
The danger of simplifying meaning is that the illusion of solving problems can arise. "Perhaps no problem was actually solved at all; instead, the mind has merely found some secondary pathway in the brain, through which one can mechanically dislodge each doubt and difference from its rightful place!"
(NB: What's the point of this???!!! Maybe, at least, a dig against self-satisfying views of how our minds work.)
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