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Žižek And So On

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The Incompleteness of Language

Language is separate to the reality that it refers to, which renders language incomplete non all. A signifier never fully corresponds to a signified. But there's always a surplusthat produces the dynamic. So yet, language is an attempt to a describe reality, the world, and ultimately insufficient to fully describe the world. If it did, it would be the world, it'd be the world. Ye ah. It still functions as a way of describing the world. Yes?

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