What is at stake here is the notion of meaning. Meaning, as Putnam puts it, "is interactional. The environment itself plays a role in determining what a speaker's words, or a community's words, refer to." Because such an environment is open-ended, it admits of no a priori inclusive description in terms of effective procedures.
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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, meaning is a property of semiotic systems. The 'environment' that is open-ended is the non-semiotic domain that is construed as meaning by the processes of consciousness, mental and verbal. Wordings do not refer to the non-semiotic domain; wordings realise the meanings construed of experience of the non-semiotic domain.
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