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notion of any sort of absolute. He supposes that nothing is stable; the so called structure is also not stable. Everything is tentative, there is no permanent the truth, the meaning, the text, the interpretation and the context. One cannot tie down the meaning of any word. Moreover, he says every sign is made up of signifier and signified. But he claims that, there is no transcendental signified and no signified can be found as it is an abstract mental construction. Moreover signified is never a finished product. It is like a cloud forming which is endless. So the quest for the meaning of any word, would lead one to the endless deferal:Derrida says that as soon as there is meaning, there is difference, from the French verb différer,which means both “to differ',and to defer'. 'So Derrida claimed that meaning is never immediate,it is always deffered. For example, let us try to tie the word meaning of the meaning. The meaning of the word "meaning" according to the Oxford , Dictionary is 'what is meant'.? Further it is searched and the meaning of 'meant' is given as, 'what it means'. If the word 'means' meaning is searched, it is found to be 'signify'. Again the same process is continued and we get the meaning of the word 'signify' as being 'significant. The meaning of the meaning is infinite in its implication, this is what anekānta claims. Each word has infinite meanings, if dealt from different perspectives.
Derrida emphasized that language cannot refer to a fixed stable meaning 'deconstruction',is used to unravel meaning from texts inorder to show that it is composed of assimilations that cannot be true; the meaning of the text cannot be limited by the intention s of the author of the text.... Words donot carry meaning with them, they “put off their ability to carry meaning by reffering to other possibilities of meaning. Language is
Jacques Derrida. Dissemination.Trans. With an Introduction and Additional Notes by Barbara Johnson. London: Continuum, 2005, Intro-ix. ? Oxford Advance Learner's Dictionary. Ed. Jonathan Crowther, 1991, p. 726.
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