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1224:, i.e. to enter into the structure within which this act is intelligible as evil. While I’ve probably not put it as clearly or as pithily as possible, I think this does a better job of getting at the problem Derrida is concerned with, while also being accessible to most readers. At a guess, I think readers are more likely to have heard of the Garden of Eden than of empiricist epistemology, and I think many people who read that story are puzzled by essentially this problem. “If Adam and Eve only knew the difference between good and evil after eating the apple, then surely they didn’t know it was wrong to eat the apple? And if they didn’t know it was wrong, can we really say it was evil to do so?” Obviously, this isn’t the last theological word on the issue but I think it can help readers grasp both the precise nature of the problem and its (conceptual, cultural, ethical) stakes. It also has the additional benefit of being explicitly discussed by Derrida, if I recall correctly, in 1028:
approaches. Oxford Languages (used by Google) puts the philosophy/critical analysis first. Unless I'm misunderstanding the Primary Topic stuff and the request for move —not impossible— this article is very much the anglophone primary topic. Usage of the word in Christianity (explicitly derived from the philosophy and analysis usages) and building trades post-dates its use in philosophy and critical analysis by a lot and Primary Topic gives weight to long-term usage in addition to volume of usage. The acceleration of use in Christianity and building trades may make this not the primary topic at some point, but I don't think we're there yet.
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1. The article ought to explain what the X is as soon as possible. Currently in the second sentence it says "Although he avoided defining the term directly, he sought to apply..." This is background info on *how* the concept came about by the creator but not *what it is*. Having "Derrida proposed the
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Currently, the examples given are “sensory ideas” and “binary oppositions such as good and evil.” What strikes me as unhelpful about this is that these two seem, at least superficially, to have little if anything to do with one another. This suggests that the problem of structure and genesis is more
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American Heritage Dictionary lists the philosophical movement and theory first, and the related school of criticism third. Merriam-Webster's primary definition is that of the philosophical or critical method. Brittanica only talks about deconstruction with respect to the philosophical and critical
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Fortunately, the latter of these two confusingly separate examples furnishes us with a better suggestion. My proposal would be to take instead the example of the Biblical ‘genesis’. On the one hand, you have the fall as the original act of sin/evil, and the act from which we are all cast into an
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genesis both complicates the intelligibility of each on their own and resists a simple synthesis of the two. This is especially unhelpful as it may feed into persistent misconceptions about deconstruction and Derrida’s work (e.g. that it is a simple rejection of structuralism as distastefully
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New here :) so apologies if I’m not quite doing this right… Conscious this is a minor suggestion, but it would be an essentially new contribution (although… haha) so I don’t want to play fast and loose with it while I’m still new to editing.
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page, with no indication that the philosophical theory, postulated in 1967, has such a hold on this term that it overwhelms the combined uses within the remaining 21 entries. —
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2. The lede is currently very unprofessional: "On the one hand..." and starting a paragraph with "but" are particularly bad. I think I've cleaned them up pretty well.
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I was looking through the section explaining deconstruction is “not post-structuralist”, and I was struck by the examples of structure and of genesis given therein.
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economy of sin and from which all subsequent human evil flows; on the other, this genetic act was precisely to eat from the tree of knowledge
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Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a
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3. A bunch of separate sections on what deconstruction is is very weird. I think it's much better to put them under "On deconstruction".
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References and External Links sections are flagged. Both sections need review to determine whether flagging is still appropriate.
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per nomination, In ictu oculi and Tbf69. There are 22 entries (including the three appearing under "See also") listed upon the
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After relisting and notification of projects, the discussion is tied though trending towards "oppose" since the relisting.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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per Triplingual. No evidence that anything is broken. Again, we seem to be inventing ambiguities out of thin air.
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should also be incorporated into and merged into the main page unless there is enough material to justify a
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5. "Developments after Derrida" also seems unprofessional to me. I prefer "Post-Derrida development".
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after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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4. "Definitions by other authors" seems unprofessional to me. I prefer "Alternative definitions".
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deconstruction of all texts where..." as the second sentence works much better in this respect.
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