Oh 67 The content and the context of communication…
Oh 67 The content and the context of communication combined to make the meaning. The context is the total setting the whole system that enfolds it. What does one piece of jigsaw mean nothing in itself it depends where it goes in the total picture where it fits and what relationship it has to do with the other pieces.
— from Communication & Conflict (Communication/Conflict) · NLP by O'Connor and Seymour
In the book
Notice, too, that people take in the world through different channels — some are visual ("I see what you mean"), some auditory ("I hear you"), some physical ("it feels right") — and you connect faster when you speak in their channel. Remember that meaning is made of content and context together — the same words mean different things in different settings. Guard against the great speaker's trap, the curse of knowledge: the better you understand something, the worse you tend to become at explaining it to someone who doesn't, because you forget what it was like not to know. — Communication & Conflict (Communication/Conflict)