“The ultimate law of language is, dare we say, that nothing can ever reside in a single term. This is a direct consequence of the fact that linguistic signs are unrelated to what they designate and that, therefore, 'a' cannot designate anything without the the aid of 'b' and vice versa, or, in other words, that both have value only by the difference between them.” FactsLawValuesLanguageTermDifferencesConsequenceDirectUltimateVicesDareAidsVice Versa Author:Ferdinand de Saussure
“In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.” ShouldKindDifferentFactsGamesLanguageTermWonderFailingConnectionsCompareEngagedEngagementScholarConcrete Author:Ferdinand de Saussure
