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Introduction
Saussure is considered as the father of the modern linguistics and semiotics. "General Linguistics", nd words and derivatives. This means that Saussure gave the point of view from a single symbol rather than the perspective of collective symbols or structural symbols. This is the scope of arbitrary.
3. Saussure's opposition to the views of nominalism
When most people get involved in the understanding of symbols, which are the combination of the signifier and the signified, they tend to name the language as a storage library set and these names are arbitrary and link to the existence of external things connected. However, in Saussure's view, language is not the symbols of its links and names of things, but the concept of image and sound, and the concept itself is created by the language. Therefore, there could not be objective reality before the existence of language and symbols. This does not mean that Saussure is in the linguistic style of the idealism because Saussure said signal language is a social symbol "language is the social part of speech activity" "semiotics studies the life of symbols in social life" (Saussure, 2002: 36,238), that is to say, symbolic language is a social fact, and hence the creation of the concept of language derived from social life. On the other hand, in order to understand the principle of arbitrariness, we can not merely