The value of purity in Derrida means that anyone who conceives language in terms of proper or pure meanings must be criticized.
"From the start, the nation was conceived in language, not in blood," Benedict Anderson wrote in 1983 in his classic book "Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism".
Following Saussure, Hjelmslev conceived of language as form not substance (1947, 1961).
[Return to table of contents] As with knowledge, early Chinese philosophers conceived of language primarily in practical terms.
On the other hand, however, the model offers less: it merely specifies reality as conceived by language.
While the majority of countries at the Warsaw UN Climate Talks seemed to be in denial about how the world has changed since the UNFCCC (the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) was conceived, body languages – and outcomes - were clear.
Instead of conceiving of language as an instrument of oppression or of intentional bewilderment, readers should deploy "interpretive tact," a good-faith estimation of a writer's intent based on their own knowledge and experience.
Esperanto attracted leftists and freethinkers of various stripes — Goebbels called it "a language of Jews and communists," not entirely inaccurately — and the majority of those people, like Zamenhof, conceived of the language as an ethical program.
Now, since the quest for truth takes place in and by language conceived as a kind of instrument, it is unnecessary to imagine that they aim to discern or expound the true.
Stalnaker emphasizes that when we make assertions (the paradigmatic use of language, conceived as a tool for exchanging information), there is a natural division into what the speaker presupposes and what the speaker says.
