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Background to Derrida Philosophy 157 G. J. Mattey ©2002

Linguistic Structuralism General theory of the structure of language Advanced by Ferdinand de Saussure ( ) All languages have two kinds of components Linguistic rules provide structure Linguistic units (words) are interchangeable within the structure

Structure and Meaning The unit of language is the sign The sign is resolved into a signifier and a signified Meaning, or signification, is a relation between the signifier and signified Saussure held that signification is conventional and arbitrary A condition for meaning is difference: that one signifier is not any of the other signifiers A generalization is that the structural basis of meaning is difference

Linguistic Structural Realism The structures of language are similar to structures of reality Aristotle had an early theory of this kind The units of sentences are subject and predicate These may be particular or general Objects in the world are classified accordingly

Linguistic Structural Anti-Realism Rejection of the thesis that structures of language are similar to structures of reality Weak version: any assertion of similarity must be made within the confines of language Strong version: structures of language are arbitrary creations of human thought

Linguistic Referential Realism Linguistic units have meaning by referring to non- linguistic objects Plato and Aristotle: general terms refer to forms General terms refer to particular objects insofar as those objects are related to the forms Descartes and Locke: all words refer directly to “ideas in the mind” Ideas then refer to non-ideal objects, so that words refer to them indirectly

Linguistic Referential Anti-Realism Rejection of the thesis that linguistic units have meaning by referring to non-linguistic objects Weak version (Wittgenstein): words have meaning through patterns of linguistic practice Practices are nonetheless constrained by non- linguistic reality Strong version: words have meaning only by referring to other words Do any constraints remain if this is so?