Critics of Saussurian meaning-theory must presuppose an unmediated givenness of reality

Evidence

Rejection of a (radicalized) Saussurian theory of meaning thus depends on what Wilfred Sellars called ‘the myth of the given’, of a parousia in which reality is immediately given to the subject. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 305

Categorization

• DEFINE: Invokes Sellars’ ‘myth of the given’ as the philosophical cost of rejecting Saussurian anti-realism.