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| 8212 | Everything that is experienced in consciousness is meaning |
| Full Idea: All experience is the experience of meaning (Sinn). Everything that appears to consciousness, everything that is for consciousness in general, is meaning. | |||
| From: Jacques Derrida (Semiology and Grammatology [1968], 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. |