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Derrida
Deconstruction, of Derrida is a criticism to Platonism, which defined by the believe
that existence is structured in terms of oppositions (separate substances or forms) and that the
oppositions are hierarchical, 73,74 with one side of the opposition being more valuable than the
other can be trace to Hume empiricist arguments that all knowledge of what we call essence
depends on the experience of what appears or that essence can be reduced down to a variation
of appearances--involving the roles of memory and anticipation--the reduction is a reduction
to what we can call immanence, which carries the sense of within or in. Meaning, we used to
call essence is found in appearance, essence is mixed into appearance. On the basis of the
reversal of the essence-appearance hierarchy and on the basis of the reduction to immanence,
a decision or impossible decision, a decision that instituted the hierarchy of essence-
appearance and separated essence from appearance. This decision is what really defines
metaphysics. 75
Retrospection, is the second phase of deconstruction, 76 every experience is temporal. 77
In the experience of the present, there is always a small difference between the moment of
now-ness and the past and the future. 78 The infinitesimal difference is not only a difference
that is non-dualistic, but also it is a difference.
Although the minuscule difference is virtually unnoticeable in everyday common
experience, when we in fact notice it, we cannot decide if we are experiencing the past or the
present, if we are experiencing the present or the future. Insofar as the difference is
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Jacques Derrida, 1981. Dissemination, pp 4-6, University Chicago Press
Jacques Derrida, 1982, Positions, pp 41-42, Continuum
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David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, In The Empiricists, 1990, Anchor Books
Double Day
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Mark Currie, 2013. The Invention of Deconstruction, pp-56-57, Palgrave and Mcmillan
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Jacques Derrida 1981. Interview with Julia Kristeva in Positions, pp-28-30, The University of Chicago Press
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Manas Roy, 2010. Concerting Déconstruction pp-171, Cambridge Scholar Publishing
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