Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Want of exact correspondence; incongruity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Lack of exact correspondence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete Lack of
exact correspondence .
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This is where the signifier its inadequation with the signified gets underway, this is the site of the signifier, the letter.
enowning enowning 2009
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This is where the signifier its inadequation with the signified gets underway, this is the site of the signifier, the letter.
Archive 2009-02-01 enowning 2009
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From the perspective that privileges knowledge, mana appears to be some kind of opacity or lack, and even Levi-Strauss seems to fall prey to this stance insofar as he claims that myth represents the inadequation of speech and world (i.e., as though full knowledge is the implicit goal).
An und für sich 2009
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