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(noun) a philosophical or critical method which asserts that meanings, metaphysical constructs, and hierarchical oppositions (as between key terms in a philosophical or literary work) are always rendered unstable by their dependence on ultimately arbitrary signifiers

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Deconstruction, on the contrary, starts out by rigorously suspending this assumed correspondence between mind, meaning and the concept of method which claims to unite them.

—p.3 Roots: structuralism and New Criticism (1) by Christopher Norris
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Again, there is a gap opened up between the claim to truth and the way in which the text deconstructs that claim as a merely rhetorical or post hoc rationalization

—p.107 The American connection (90) by Christopher Norris
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