For the impact of such arguments on the notion of meaning, see Stout, 'Meaning', and Wheeler, 'Extension'. This phrase occurs at Derrida, Grammatology, p. 158. In its context it has a more specific and complicated sense than that usually attached to it by hostile commentators. See Derrida, Grammatology, p.49, where he agrees with Pierce that nothing can stop such a regress. For the distinction between these two types of philosopher, see Fine, 'Anti-Realism' and Rorty, 'Pragmatism', pp.
Beliefs are true or false but they represent nothing.
On Derrida and Davidson, see Wheeler, 'Extension' and 'Indeterminacy'. Such passages in the writings of Davidson, Putnam and other analytic philosophers parallel the decontructionists' attacks on 'the traditional binary oppositions'. A similar point is made by Robert Scholes at pp. 67-73 of Protocols . Scholes is concerned to distinguish a metaphysical from a pragmatic sense of 'presence', and to argue that scepticism about the former is irrelevant to the latter.