... absent: why else would we need to signify it if we could access the thing-itself? In our attempts to represent physis, we can only hope to come up with a vocabulary (be it that of theology or quantum mechanics) that stands in for (supplements) physis, thus deferring it, but also adds to it (supplements) an entire semiotic paraphernalia that is inessential ... ...

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