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The Philosophy of Language and Music
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Which philosopher argued that language is a system of signs that represent objects and concepts?
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Ferdinand de Saussure
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Ferdinand de Saussure, a Swiss linguist, proposed the idea of language as a system of signs, where each sign consists of a signifier (the sound or written form) and a signified (the concept or object it represents).