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Originally Posted by ARTelevision
I'm referring to the lack of any adequate correspondence between words and experience.
As for words-as-words, I find this (to me) utterly inadequate correspondence to be quite fascinating in itself.
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Yeah, your idea does seem a little suspect. Have you considered Ferdinand de Saussure's "the sign, the signifier, and the signified" for starters?
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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