Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Anaxarchus, George Berkeley and Jacques Derrida

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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
21932 'Différance' is the interwoven history of each sign [Derrida, by Glendinning]
21886 Meanings depend on differences and contrasts [Derrida]
21930 For Aristotle all proper nouns must have a single sense, which is the purpose of language [Derrida]
21884 Capacity for repetitions is the hallmark of language [Derrida]
21935 The sign is only conceivable as a movement between elusive presences [Derrida]
21933 Writing functions even if the sender or the receiver are absent [Derrida, by Glendinning]
21894 Madness and instability ('the demonic hyperbole') lurks in all language [Derrida]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 2. Meaning as Mental
8212 Everything that is experienced in consciousness is meaning [Derrida]
6716 Language is presumably for communication, and names stand for ideas [Berkeley]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 9. Ambiguity
21929 Derrida focuses on ambiguity, but talks of 'dissemination', not traditional multiple meanings [Derrida]
21931 'Dissemination' is opposed to polysemia, since that is irreducible, because of multiple understandings [Derrida, by Glendinning]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 10. Denial of Meanings
21885 Words exist in 'spacing', so meanings are never synchronic except in writing [Derrida]
19. Language / D. Propositions / 4. Mental Propositions
6718 I can't really go wrong if I stick to wordless thought [Berkeley]