Saussure's synchronic approach to language marked the beginning of a rupture in the history of linguistics by dispensing with the diachronic study of the history of languages and by meditating instead on the structurality of language in general. Taking Saussure's linguistics as our point of departure and bringing to bear Derrida's critique ... 's critique of structurality applies not only to the metaphysical interpretation of language, but to all of the West's theoretical systems: of morality, of political ethics, of religion, of science, of philosophy. What is significant, then, about D...

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... of the human mind to grasp and form abstract concepts. The knowledge of ding-an-sich ("thing in itself"), or nouema, is impossible to attain. In Georg Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel's philosophy of "absolute idealism," reality is broken down by our distinction between it and our knowledge of it, and the understanding of reality is the understanding of our own concepts, and ... vice versa. Often defined as justified true belief--though just as often disputed as replacing, not involving, belief--knowledge is the familiarity, awareness, or understanding gained through study, discovery, or experie...

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