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Meaning (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠brought to life in discourse.

Meaning (n.) lies, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠for a statement, not in a treasure of hidden intentions but in the difference that sets it against the other statements beside it or before it.

Meaning (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the Classical age could be nothing more than the totality of signs arranged in their progression — given in the complete table of signs.

Meaning (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not produced through the free play of signifiers alone, but signification is constrained by and effected by historical context and power.

Meaning (n.) becomes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠for the history of ideas a great uniform text never yet articulated, revealing what men 'really meant' — beside which every actual statement looks like superabundant proliferation.

Meaning (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not intrinsic to a sentence, nor even its absence: to call 'Colourless green ideas sleep furiously' meaningless, one must first rule out that it is a dream, a poem, a code, or the speech of a drug addict.

Meaning (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the last thing people will let go of: dispossessed of their history, economics, language, and myths, they cling to the tender, consoling certainty of changing at least their 'meaning' with a fresh word that comes only from themselves.