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Originally Posted by bianca

Ideas stem from intuition, from an unconscious linguistic system of signs. Descartes said that one can only arrive at pure intuition through the 'reduction from language'. This is because language describes what is already present to consciousness before the advent of any signs.

There's a whole lot of Saphir-Whorf in that. In this too:

Originally Posted by bianca

Seen in the semiotic context, scientific theories are hypotheses (Poincare) - because they are tarnished by language.

And this:

Originally Posted by bianca

Defining any object (theory, hypothesis and so on) is basically a matter of discourse.