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Full Idea
All experience is the experience of meaning (Sinn). Everything that appears to consciousness, everything that is for consciousness in general, is meaning.
Gist of Idea
Everything that is experienced in consciousness is meaning
Source
Jacques Derrida (Semiology and Grammatology [1968], p.26)
Book Ref
Derrida,Jacques: 'Positions' [Continuum 2002], p.26
A Reaction
This an assertion, from a quite different philosophical tradition, of the centrality of linguistic meaning in philosophy. It links with the centrality of intentionality in our understanding of the mind.