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en-wikipedia-org-7225		Deconstruction - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	10679	1327	54	According to Derrida and taking inspiration from the work of Ferdinand de Saussure,[15] language as a system of signs and words only has meaning because of the contrast between these signs.[16][14]:7, 12 As Richard Rorty contends, "words have meaning only because of contrast-effects with other words...no word can acquire meaning in the way in which philosophers from Aristotle to Bertrand Russell have hoped it might—by being the unmediated expression of something non-linguistic (e.g., an emotion, a sensed observation, a physical object, an idea, a Platonic Form)".[16] As a consequence, meaning is never present, but rather is deferred to other signs. Derrida's theories on deconstruction were themselves influenced by the work of linguists such as Ferdinand de Saussure (whose writings on semiotics also became a cornerstone of structuralism in the mid-20th century) and literary theorists such as Roland Barthes (whose works were an investigation of the logical ends of structuralist thought).	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7225.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7225.txt