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In what follows I shall challenge certain widespread misunderstandings in regard deconstruction and its (supposed) affinity with current antirealist and cultural-relativist schools of thought. This issue is posed most directly in Jacques Derrida's 'White Mythology: metaphor in the text of philosophy', an essayâI should addâthat has very often been construed as a full-scale exercise in the rherical deconstruction of such 'logocentric'notions as truth, knowledge, reason, and reality.1 My purpose is therefore refute the idea of deconstruction as a priori committed an extreme ('textualist') version of the argument that reality is a purely linguistic construct, that 'all concepts are metaphors', 'all science merely a species of instrumental fiction', and kindred quasi-deconstructive idees recues.2 It is also demonstrate that these claims turn out be strictly unintelligibleâor self-subvertingâwhen confronted with the very different kind of sceptical rigour that deconstruction brings bear in raising such questions. So can there beâis science capable of delivering or philosophy of conceiving-âwhat Derrida (no doubt 'rherically') calls 'a truth of language which would say the thing such as it is in itself, in act, properly'?3 Not if we construe this claim on the basis of a straightforward correspondence-theory, or on the model of a one--one guaranteed
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Published: Mar 1, 1998
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