It asserts that a text has many meanings and therefore no definitive interpretation. In this context is positions itself against critical schools like New Criticism.
Most texts have an almost infinite number of possible interpretations.
And the interpretations themselves are just as creative and important as the text being interpreted. Certainty and knowledge begin with the self which is the basis or ground of all rational thought and actions. Human beings possess an essential nature characterized by rational thought. Saussaure's linguistic sign and the relationship between the signifier and the signified. Critique of the transcendental signified.