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Single Idea 21882
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 6. Deconstruction
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Full Idea
Sentences are implicitly contradictory, because they can be used differently in different contexts (most obviously in 'I am ill').
Gist of Idea
Sentences are contradictory, as they have opposite meanings in some contexts
Source
Jacques Derrida (works [1990]), quoted by Barry Stocker - Derrida on Deconstruction
Book Ref
Stocker,Barry: 'Derrida on Deconstruction' [Routledge 2006], p.68
The
28 ideas
from 'works'
21887
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Derrida focuses on other philosophers, rather than on science
[Derrida]
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21888
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Philosophy is just a linguistic display
[Derrida]
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21896
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Philosophy aims to build foundations for thought
[Derrida, by May]
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21892
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Interpretations can be interpreted, so there is no original 'meaning' available
[Derrida]
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21883
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Sincerity can't be verified, so fiction infuses speech, and hence reality also
[Derrida]
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21893
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Philosophy is necessarily metaphorical, and its writing is aesthetic
[Derrida]
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21882
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Sentences are contradictory, as they have opposite meanings in some contexts
[Derrida]
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21881
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We aim to explore the limits of expression (as in Mallarmé's poetry)
[Derrida]
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20925
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Hermeneutics blunts truth, by conforming it to the interpreter
[Derrida, by Zimmermann,J]
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20934
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Hermeneutics is hostile, trying to overcome the other person's difference
[Derrida, by Zimmermann,J]
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21895
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Structuralism destroys awareness of dynamic meaning
[Derrida]
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21934
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The idea of being as persistent presence, and meaning as conscious intelligibility, are self-destructive
[Derrida, by Glendinning]
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4756
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Derrida says that all truth-talk is merely metaphor
[Derrida, by Engel]
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21877
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True thoughts are inaccessible, in the subconscious, prior to speech or writing
[Derrida]
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21889
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'I' is the perfect name, because it denotes without description
[Derrida]
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21878
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Names have a subjective aspect, especially the role of our own name
[Derrida]
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21879
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Even Kripke can't explain names; the word is the thing, and the thing is the word
[Derrida]
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21894
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Madness and instability ('the demonic hyperbole') lurks in all language
[Derrida]
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21891
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The good is implicitly violent (against evil), so there is no pure good
[Derrida]
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21890
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Heidegger showed that passing time is the key to consciousness
[Derrida]
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21880
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'Tacit theory' controls our thinking (which is why Freud is important)
[Derrida]
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21886
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Meanings depend on differences and contrasts
[Derrida]
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21930
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For Aristotle all proper nouns must have a single sense, which is the purpose of language
[Derrida]
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21884
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Capacity for repetitions is the hallmark of language
[Derrida]
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21935
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The sign is only conceivable as a movement between elusive presences
[Derrida]
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21933
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Writing functions even if the sender or the receiver are absent
[Derrida, by Glendinning]
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21931
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'Dissemination' is opposed to polysemia, since that is irreducible, because of multiple understandings
[Derrida, by Glendinning]
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21885
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Words exist in 'spacing', so meanings are never synchronic except in writing
[Derrida]
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