What’s the difference between the “meaning of an action” and the “purpose of an action”? …I feel actions are interpreted through their purpose. I don’t think “to invent a meaning” makes any sense when applied to “actions” unless you are including the possible purpose/motivation of the action as part of what you are inventing for it.

Unless what you mean by “meaning” is “consequence”… but in that case, you are not “inventing” it… consequences are facts… at most you can interpret the consequence of the action, in the sense of viewing them through different moral perspectives, but even this would be heavily determined by “purpose”, since you’d need a purpose/goal in order to build a moral framework at all.

Mark me down for either/or.