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Ferdinand de Saussure FR

The principle that signs and values are defined solely through their differences from one another.

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The principle that signs and values are defined solely through their differences from one another. No sign possesses an isolated positive essence; rather, the entire system is conceived as a matrix of oppositions, a view that underlies Saussure’s broad structuralist influence.