6 definitions
Adaptation (n.) is an ideal we talk about all the time, but being adapted simply means being alive.
Analysis (n.) brings back to light not a forgotten truth sifted from error, as in Plato, but the truth in error and the error in truth.
Language (n.) is geometry; speech is perspective, and its vanishing point is always an ego — within language itself there is no ego.
Nature (n.) makes contingent choices too: she speaks by coiling a shell to the right or the left — her own way of making families or arabesques.
Politics (n.) is possible among men because they exchange knowledge through language — the politics of elephants exists thanks to the word.
Speech (n.) is a cut through the universe of language, tied to where the speaker stands: language may have a meaning, but only speech has a signification.