Signs are only meaningful within the system of signification in which they are produced, and not as discrete units. |
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The time will come when this denomination of Border State, still frequently employed in America, will cease to have any signification. |
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Mathematics in its widest signification is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning. |
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It governs the healing principle so it has signification over herbs that are all-round curatives, such as selfheal. |
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For Saussure the value of words is not intrinsic, nor a function of signification, but is a property of the system. |
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Derrida suggests that representation or signification is based on both a distance from a signified and a difference among terms. |
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Our futurist zeitgeist may originate in capitalist economics, but its logic also creates a context for cultural signification. |
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Here, the white ribbon is read as a robe that mediates structure and decoration and opens the building to other forms of signification. |
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We can recognize a logic of the unconscious only through its representation in the symbolic order, through the effect of signification. |
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The capitalization reduces the top inscription to its barest signification, equating Morrison's name directly with her prize. |
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But Bob's signification as the new indigene and the legitimate inheritor of the land is radically contradicted by the ending of the story. |
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In traditional signification, the Sun represents the captain, the boss, the leader or the king. |
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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. |
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There's a complex structure of meaning and signification in her work, as clearly comes across in reading through several transcripts of her pieces. |
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The desperate attempt to comprehend events is reflected in the intensification of a search for meaning as signification becomes unanchored and multiplies. |
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Derrida insisted that the very way in which language functions, that is, signification, necessitates an unbridgeable gap between the signifier and the signified. |
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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. |
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In like manner the form for the episcopate, as it stood till 1662, was wanting in the necessary signification. |
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One of the signification adjustments relates to the revaluation of fixed assets to current cost. |
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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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In any case, linguistic qualifiers militate against the signification of the terms they qualify, even as they expand or reduce the space of signification. |
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Value as a structure of signification thus radically changes the way we compare things by making commodities commensurable, despite their qualitative differences. |
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In the context of Greek philosophy, on the other hand, nature continues to be divinized in the signification of absoluteness, and the only desacralization effected here is in the signification of personhood. |
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My representation of the square was also built on what people did not write about: if what is said is significant, what is unsaid, forgotten or overlooked does have as much signification. |
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Albert defines signification by representation. |
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In the course of these researches, he has clearly seen that psychoanalytic views have equally a religious and a criteriologic signification. |
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Rome felt that even if this addition could give the form its due signification, it was introduced too late. |
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Rachel is another modest, nun-like name, of the same order as Judith, and has the appropriate signification of a lamb. |
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What's at stake in tattling involves a folding of the semantic content within the semiotic context of the report: processes of signification, not products. |
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In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term. |
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The myth, then, signifies two gestures, but only the most attractive one is important to the mythologizers who overlay the previous signification or meaning with a new one. |
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