Can meaning be quantified?

This emerged from a very bizarre and strangely compelling dream. The original idea was so incomprehensible that I don't think I'll even try to explain it. Rather, I'll present the core issue. (Or rather I should say the superficial one, since the core issue cannot be explained by human words alone. Dream logic and all that.)

Although language and concepts are rather subjective and arbitrary, is meaning itself an objective thing? Is meaning itself out there in the world, waiting to be measured with the right kind of ruler? If not, how else could I say something and still be understood by someone else?

That is the qualitative part of the question. As to quantitative measurement, let's say that a tautology is defined to be exactly one plato. Could I then use that to measure, relative to a tautology, the platos in the sentence "there is a computer on the desk"? Or the platos of a contradiction? Are two contradictions actually precisely equal to identity, or is that just an approximation due to lack of a proper ruler? How many wrongs equal a right? (Negative one?)

I think I just need to cut back on something in my diet. Maybe carbohydrates.

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