Over time many words that remain current in a language acquire several diverse meanings which have nothing to do with each other. Those who are fluent in the language and use these words in conversation or in reading and writing texts effortlessly, selection of the intended meaning is cued by the context and no awareness is retained of the semantic fields belonging to the un-selected meanings. This is the most ordinary thing and yet the complete absence of any tendency towards a semantic synthesis refutes a key pillar of Hegelianism. This, of course is seized on by deconstructionists with their incessant punning, even though the latter tendency is more accurately described as a debased Hegelianism. If the tendency of these diverse meanings is rather to draw apart that to come nearer, isn't this still an indication of an irreducible togetherness of sign an meaning.