The sign (the sentence) gets its significance from the
system of signs, from the language to which it belongs.
Roughly: understanding a sentence means understanding a
language.
8.
As a part of the system of
language, one may say “the sentence
”
has life”. But one is tempted to imagine that
which gives the sentence life as something in an occult sphere,
accompanying the sentence. But whatever would accompany
it would for us just be another sign.