/lit/ - Literature

>>19286165
uhh...based department?

>>17315401
>roger crouton

>>16388291
>It must be denoting something different if it is itself different in someway.
Let's de-con-struct this.
>It must be denoting something different
Our primary clause here, note the verb "be", which is forming the phrase "be denoting something different". You use the adverb "denoting" in conjunction with the auxillary verb "must" to underline the state of existence having an evident property. In more terse terms, we can simplify this to merely:
>It is different
As the only reason to include the adverbs is due to the choice of case with the verb "be". By switching to the present tense third-person and losing the subjunctive case, we remove a semantic redundancy.

Now let's look at the other clause beyond the conjunction "if":
>it is itself different in someway.
Here we will note the verb is a case of be, "is". This clause uses the verb to connect the subject "it" to the assertion that it holds the property of "difference". You then specify that there is greater information with the preposition of "in", however "some way" yields none. The adjective of "some" precludes that the degree of difference in the "way" of "be"-ing is indeterminate. Ultimately this places the onus of meaning on the first clause, which denotes a definiteness, making this prepositional phrase meaningless.

Consider:
>it is itself different in someway
and
>it is itself different
They are fully equivalent in this case. Additionally, the inclusion of the extra "itself" adds nothing to the meaning of the sentence at all, so we can remove that as well.

In other words, you have written:
>It is different if it is different

Which is quite the astute observation. While this phrase is different from the one you have written, the meaning is the exact same. Nothing about what is communicated has changed, except for the form that it has taken. This form is merely less obscure in it's circular logic and surface-level observation than the other.

And this ties into the mistake that you've made. The sign is NOT the meaning communicated, the sign is only a sign. 1, 0.999... are both different signs, and yet they communicate the exact same meaning. They are the products of two different sign processes that happened around the exact same meaning. Your question of difference is not one of value, but one of shallow representation.

>>13188054
this looks cool, is it on audible?

By checking this 5

Unironically Infinite Jest