Now you may have noticed there is no horse up here with me. Derrida has noticed that. Words do not stand for things, they stand in for them. Let me make that distinction again. Words do not stand for things, they stand in for them. The noun “horse” is convenient, like the noun “fly”, like the word “potato chip”, the phrase “cow chip”, the name “Neil Bush“; because I have all these words I don’t have to carry around a kit bag of all the entities in the universe to point to when I talk. In other words, the theory of reference makes us think as though what is referred to has to have a kind of presence.
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