The operation of evaluation across these moments enables us to identify the way in which meaning is (re)produced: we identify the grounds on which meaning is communicated through the movement of judgement from existence (where existence is indexed through an announcement of an intended object to be acquired) through reflection (where the criteria
for recognition are identified through a process of considering what the object is or is not)
and contingent necessity (where necessary conditions or criteria for its recognition are temporarily fixed), if they exist