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Signs are only meaningful within the system of signification in which they are produced, and not as discrete units.
The time will come when this denomination of Border State, still frequently employed in America, will cease to have any signification.
Mathematics in its widest signification is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.
It governs the healing principle so it has signification over herbs that are all-round curatives, such as selfheal.
For Saussure the value of words is not intrinsic, nor a function of signification, but is a property of the system.
Derrida suggests that representation or signification is based on both a distance from a signified and a difference among terms.
Our futurist zeitgeist may originate in capitalist economics, but its logic also creates a context for cultural signification.
Here, the white ribbon is read as a robe that mediates structure and decoration and opens the building to other forms of signification.
We can recognize a logic of the unconscious only through its representation in the symbolic order, through the effect of signification.
The capitalization reduces the top inscription to its barest signification, equating Morrison's name directly with her prize.
But Bob's signification as the new indigene and the legitimate inheritor of the land is radically contradicted by the ending of the story.
In traditional signification, the Sun represents the captain, the boss, the leader or the king.
That hereby is signified that they who imbue others with falses shall be imbued with falses from hell, appears from the signification of a sword.
There's a complex structure of meaning and signification in her work, as clearly comes across in reading through several transcripts of her pieces.
The desperate attempt to comprehend events is reflected in the intensification of a search for meaning as signification becomes unanchored and multiplies.
Derrida insisted that the very way in which language functions, that is, signification, necessitates an unbridgeable gap between the signifier and the signified.
So by an agreement of the disputing parties, as in obligational disputes, we can impose on it a new signification, and not use it according to its common signification.
In like manner the form for the episcopate, as it stood till 1662, was wanting in the necessary signification.
One of the signification adjustments relates to the revaluation of fixed assets to current cost.
Such novelistic fragments not only portray recognizable figures of lovers' thought but vividly display mechanisms of signification and their entrammelling complications.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Auctoritas also had in Old Latin a different signification from what it has in later Latin.
At the outset, in the case of any art, we have some knowledge of the signification of its terms.
The technique of the caesarean section has only a medical signification, and it need not be described here.
The imprecatory manner of it may be considered to be simply a solemn signification of the speaker's own assent and approval.
The word Tartarus has been kept from the Latin, with its native signification.
But this twelvefold number is set for all mankind of all the orb, for the perfectness of its signification.
The Sun and midheaven also signify the father, and the Moon has general signification of the mother.
Instead of NACA and maca, are used NACAg and macag respectively, when the signification of the root is often done.
Here, as in the villanelle, a change of signification in the repeated lines is thought to add to the charm of the form.
Through the actual topknot, a long eagle feather, in special signification of commandership, was stuck slantingly.
The remainder are eclectically chosen auxiliaries whose signification may be readily discerned.
Talar 301 in Baluchi bears the signification of a rocky band of cliffs or hills.
The term astrology had none of the unfortunate or derisory signification that it has at the present time.
Many teachers of the Art of War then gave this limited signification as the definition of coup d'oeil.
The particle ba, has not signification, but serves to point out the interrogative and dubitative sentences.
The manner in which the fylfot was employed proves that it certainly had a symbolic signification.
Again, the generic term and the specific term ought to be univocal in signification.
Whatever credit is due to Geoffrey as a relater of facts, he is certainly as good authority as any for the signification of words.
What if my Lady's refusal to receive this evening may have some signification in it?
The Italian affixes ino and ello have a diminutive meaning, and therefore both names have an identical signification.
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