Why materialists are predominantly materialists

[Angrboda]

I didn't mean that the reductionist is arguing that signs do not reduce to the physical.  Only that you don't have to possess a full fledged theory of the subject to be a reductionist.

Or rather they don't have any principle by which they can reincorporate phenomena that already dismissed as illusions. Then they confidently re-issue the promissory note that someday-maybe a theory will be forthcoming.

I'm not sure it's a necessary part of reductionism to dismiss meaning as an illusion. You seem to feel it's a grievous omission for a reductionist not to have a theory of meaning. With all the counter-apologist head space devoted to consciousness, I suspect it's hardly noticed by your average reductionist. You in particular seem to have this obsession with the issue and the presumed consequences for materialism. Good for you. It's an interesting question but hardly the main thrust of a physicalist theory of mind. But as long as we're on the subject, what is your theory of meaning?