The tendency in western civilization to privilege the linguistic signifier over the signified

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• Derrida notes the tendency in western philosophy and semiotics to value the signifier as opposed to the thing it signifies in
• Linguistic system, consists of
• believed that the “unified self” was just a product of Western culture and that if there was a “self, it must be plural.”
• Derrida calls ‘preference for presence over absence’ as