The Ouroboros strikes again...
Structuralism says that things gain their meaning from their context and position within a structure. So what position does Structuralism take in the system?
This occured to me as I sort pictures - bear with me another procedure. I'm using the recycle bin to collect deleted pictures and if I make a mistake I can restore it from the bin. However like a real bin you can't view the pictures in the bin, you need to take them out. I've created a folder in which to move them and called it the "bin floor", named after the usual procedure of emptying the bin onto the floor to find something you chucked out. But its not "really" the bin floor its another folder in a computer memory with a nice graphic display on a computer screen - its an illusion designed to fool me. It gets its name from being used like the bin floor. This is an example of Structuralism - it has the same context in this game as the floor. But it isn't the floor.
We all sense there is something wrong with Structuralism. Meaning is not just linguistic games, but you try and say how S is wrong and they'll hammer you. We'll let the Ouroboros ask them how they are right for a change ;-) and do so using language ONLY.
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