The Interconnection between Expressing and Signifying as the Unity of an Egoic Act

Abstract

Our theme was the clarification of thinking, of thinking together with speaking, of thinking that exercises the sense-giving function on speaking. Whenever we actually speak or actually take part in a discourse by listening to it and by understanding it, this actuality will consist in the execution of egoic acts in sense we have defined. This initially concerns thinking that gives sense to words. The speaking person means something in the spoken words, and this act of meaning, this “thinking” that belongs to speaking is an act (or a unitary nexus of acts) carried out by the ego. That toward which the ego is intentionally directed in these acts is what the ego means in speaking these words, what the words as discourse “express.”