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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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Meanings depend on differences and contrasts [Derrida]
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For Aristotle all proper nouns must have a single sense, which is the purpose of language [Derrida]
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Capacity for repetitions is the hallmark of language [Derrida]
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The sign is only conceivable as a movement between elusive presences [Derrida]
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Writing functions even if the sender or the receiver are absent [Derrida, by Glendinning]
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Madness and instability ('the demonic hyperbole') lurks in all language [Derrida]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
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There is an attempt to give a verificationist account of meaning, without the error of reducing everything to sensations [Dennett on Quine]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 9. Ambiguity
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'Dissemination' is opposed to polysemia, since that is irreducible, because of multiple understandings [Derrida, by Glendinning]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 10. Denial of Meanings
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Words exist in 'spacing', so meanings are never synchronic except in writing [Derrida]
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The word 'meaning' is only useful when talking about significance or about synonymy [Quine]
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I do not believe there is some abstract entity called a 'meaning' which we can 'have' [Quine]
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