This is true even of seemingly identical signs, because each has its use value and is only intelligible as that which it exists to mean in a certain context.

看着相同的符号也是如此，因为每一个符号都有自己的价值,只有当它出现在某一语境中才能被理解。

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Whatever the convention is within a system of differences, that's what makes the sign intelligible.

这些惯例存在于一个有差别的系统中，这就让符号变得有意义了。

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He is part of his own phantasmagoria and we adore him because nature has grown intelligible, and by doing so a part of our creative power.

他是自己幻影中的一部分,我们崇拜他因为自然而变得易懂，我们也理解自己的创造力。

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So it is always the case that I can only know what I know if it's a question of being communicated with, having something rendered intelligible for me, negatively.

所以我们总是这样地认识事物,我们和人交流时，总是被动地认识符号。

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So let me just return once again to the way in which sign systems are intelligible because lots of- there are going to be lots of moments in a course like this in which what we seem to be saying is that, "Oh, we can't know anything," or "We don't know what we know," or "How do we know what we know?"

现在让我们回到,怎样理解符号系统的话题上-,这个学期你们会有很多时候觉得,天哪，我们什么也认识不了“,或者，哎，我们其实并不了解我们以为理解的事“

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