"Everything that has been said up to this |
point boils down to this: in language |
there are only differences. |
Even more
|
a difference generally implies |
positive terms between which |
the difference is set up; but in |
language there are only differences |
without positive terms. |
Whether we take the signified |
or the signifier, |
language has neither ideas nor sounds |
that |
existed before |
the linguistic system." |