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    It is not the case that Language cannot capture women's otherness; women are always subsumed within the order of man's discourse.

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    • 1.Wittgenstein's later philosophy demonstrates that language is not a fixed system but a dynamic set of practices continuously reshaped by use.
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    • 2.If language is constituted through ongoing social practice, marginalized speakers can subvert and expand its norms rather than being wholly subsumed by them.
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    • 3.Judith Butler's performativity theory shows that iterative citation of norms always admits slippage, enabling resignification from within discourse itself.
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    • 1.The claim that male-normed language forms a closed order presupposes a structural totality, but Derrida's critique of logocentrism shows no system fully closes off its own constitutive outside.
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    • 2.If no discursive order is perfectly self-sealing, then the claim that women's otherness is always already captured commits the very metaphysical totalization it purports to criticize.
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    • 1.Women can be articulated only within a male-normed language system.
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    • 2.A language system expressing the One cannot express genuine otherness from the One.
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    • 3.The order of man's discourse is a closed order from which nothing escapes.
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