I'm willing to grant non-symbolic externality. Though, I don't know how useful that is.
We will never access the signified only the signifier. When we believe that signifiers exist externally, we are engaging in a suspension of epistemic honesty, and I get why we do it - it makes talking about and engaging with the world infinitely easier. But we shouldn't ever believe our own trick. That's reverting to a pre-operational version of cognition.
We will never access the signified only the signifier. When we believe that signifiers exist externally, we are engaging in a suspension of epistemic honesty, and I get why we do it - it makes talking about and engaging with the world infinitely easier. But we shouldn't ever believe our own trick. That's reverting to a pre-operational version of cognition.