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    True expression requires both 'speaking speech' (the act ... — Carmelics
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    True expression requires both 'speaking speech' (the act of genuine creation) and 'spoken speech' (the shared linguistic substrate).

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    • 1.True expression must be at once a true creation — something unheard of — and yet understandable by others.
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    • 2.For expression to be understandable, the language it uses (natural, scientific, or artistic) must already be known by the audience.
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    • 3.For expression to be genuinely new, the speaker must transform and re-compose shared elements idiosyncratically.
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    • 1.Derrida's critique of the metaphysics of presence holds that the ideal of originary expression presupposes a self-present speaker-intention that language structurally defers and disseminates.
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    • 2.If iterability — the condition that makes signs repeatable — is what enables meaning at all, then 'genuine creation' is not a separate act but an effect of the differential system it claims to transcend.
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    • 3.The Merleau-Pontian framework thus smuggles in a Romantic mythology of the creative subject that its own phenomenology of embodied language undermines.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's private language argument shows that meaning is constituted entirely by public use, leaving no remainder for a 'genuine creation' beyond the communal.
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    • 2.If all meaning derives from rule-following within a shared form of life, the 'speaking speech' pole collapses into 'spoken speech', making the distinction incoherent rather than complementary.
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    This in turn gives a more specific meaning to the relation of the new and the old in expression. True expression (whether the first genuine self-expression of the learning speaker, a new scientific meaning, or true artistic achievement) is both totally idiosyncratic, and a re-composition of shared elements; it transforms the old. For true expression to occur, two forms of speech are thus required: “speaking speech” and “spoken speech” (Merleau-Ponty, 1945a, 197). This explains the puzzling fact
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