Formal models

Meaning Gravitation

Gravitacija smisla
Working metaphor + formal model family

A model family describing how persistent, integrated meaning can behave as an attractor of attention within a defined system.

Persistence can create attraction, but attraction is only one mode of relation.

Why this term exists

Some ideas become difficult to leave because accumulated context, repetition, relation and attention keep pulling subsequent interpretation toward them. Meaning Gravitation gives that pattern a formal metaphor.

Definition in the system

The model borrows gravitational language to describe attraction in a meaning system. It does not claim that ideas generate literal spacetime curvature.

The project also explicitly limits this metaphor: Semantic Gravitation only pulls. Semonika adds Detraction, complementarity, Tonus, Takt and Relatio because meaningful systems do more than attract similar things.

This term therefore belongs inside a broader relational architecture rather than serving as a theory of all meaning.

Example

A well-established concept can become the default interpretation of new evidence even when a less prominent concept fits the local context better. The attraction is real as a cognitive/search pattern without making prominence equal to relevance.

What it is not

Meaning Gravitation is not the same as semantic gravity in Legitimation Code Theory and not the same as the separate Semantic Gravitation research bridge.

Formal / operational note

Working model family includes v_e = √(2G_sM_s/R) and R_c = 2G_sM_s/v_diss², with G_s treated as a model scaling constant rather than a physical gravitational constant.