When it comes to Saussure, his ideas on semiotics and the general linguistics, he has many abstract ideas. However, unlike Nietzsche, he takes his ideas and elaborates on it more. While Nietzsche describes an abstract idea on language and entertains the idea that language is a lie and deception that people collectively agree to be true, Saussure takes his idea and elaborates on it by breaking it down and explaining his ideas as opposed to Nietzsches venting. When it comes to Saussure’s beliefs in general linguistics, object and subject are fundamentally separate. Linguistic Language fits into a broader subject known as Semiotics/Semiology. Examples of semiotics are fashion, coding, music, dance, math. However, the most important of these is linguistics. In linguistics subtle change can have major complications. Language is the most arbitrary because it is often a removed version from the signs and where they are located. Language varies across different cultures and locations. Anything you say can describe anything in the world because language as arbitrary. In Saussure’s “Course in General Linguistics (850-66),” he brings up a contrast between “Langue vs Parole”, Langue is compared to a chessboard and its rules. Langue is the grammar and the visual structure of rules that create “Parole.” What does Grammar and Rules have in common? Grammar is absent and rules are invisible. They aren’t a tangible thing that people can touch and feel. Grammar, Langue, is just there. Its Immaterial, Abstract, Social/Collective/Sparse. Parole refers to the specific moves and these moves consist of utterances which form words which create sound-image. While Langue is Absent and invisible, Parole is Present and Material. It is Individual and free within its own limits of Langue. Words are unlimited. Words can be created as long as people collectively agree on that word being part of language. The system of signs (language) is a construct where we agree to these signs where we agree to them as fact and true. Its nice to see here that Saussure takes Nietzsches idea and elaborates on this by breaking it down and understanding the why. Another idea that Saussure brings up is the contrast between the Signifier vs the Signified. They both revolve around the “sign” but the signifier refers to the sound-image as it relates to the signified concept. When it comes to the signified vs the signifier, the both have to mutually create each other as their cannot be one without the other. In language there are only differences without positive terms.