haha, i am writing a philosophy paper and recycling material from another class (yes, I wrote this... on february 22 2006 to be exact)

human thought is a process of mental discrimination by means of binary oppositions which do not exist prior to that very process. Oppositions do not exist in nature, but in the mind: they are used in the mind's spontaneous generation of meaning. Merleau-Ponty is saying that there is no meaning prior to the one we improvise. There is no mysterious ā??translationā? of my thoughts into these sentences, because my meaning is not independent of the precise way that I put it. And, there is nothing for it to correspond to outside of itself. Thus with every assertion, every new sentence or cultural action, we invent a system which satisfies, but which is consistent only with itself.
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