>Please correct me if I'm wrong. Would my opinion be that you are wrong, it would not imply that: - I'm right about you being wrong; - my own view is right a

>Please correct me if I'm wrong. Would my opinion be that you are wrong, it would not imply that: - I'm right about you being wrong; - my own view is right and spread it would be an act of correction. > I meant that words are like signs; they point at the real thing. Nothingness doesn't point at anything real by definition. > We must be careful not to confuse the sign for the thing itself. Nor the sign with an interpretation act stimulated by some sign. > We can't simply rearrange words and assume that what this new sign, this new combination of words points to, is "real". Words don't exist outside some interpretation process, by the way. >Edit: First the thing exists, then we use a word to refer to it. That's a bit trickier. Because before someone use a word to refer to something, this word didn't exist. Naming things is a performative action. Through words, not only can you gain new knowledge that you can challenge through non-verbal actions, but they change the reality itself as it introduces new relationships in the world that where not present before there were used as a reference tool.