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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Marx, in the famous argument about commodity fetishism in Kapital, is comparing the way in which we take the product of human labor and turn it into a commodity by saying that it has objective value, by saying that we know what its value is in and of itself.

马克思在《资本论》里关于商品拜物教的著名论述中，比较了我们通过人类劳动创造产品,并将其转化为商品的方法,认为产品具有客观价值，认为我们知道它的价值存在于何并且知道它本身。

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