That words on their own have no meaning outside of context, and that truth is to be found in the langue (signified) and not the parole (signifier). That if I say, "I think, therefore I Am", that's absolute emptiness outside of the right context or without reference to the actual signified essence.
Clearly, I see the fate of universals and what would become of debate and communication? A mere drama of eventual agreement/disagreement based on faith?
As I have said previously, only by faith can we the finite claim to grasp absolute essence, and in this light, I see a death for philosophy as we know it (and all communication between finite beings). Unless of course we agree to limit ourselves to relative essence, in which case we attain a philosophy higher than rhetoric but still much below truth.
The invention of symbol has been to me one of our best as a species wishing to relate.
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