The conscious events that we are aware of are physical events in their own right, just as much as the brain events observed in the lab by researchers. If we allow the mental its own existence as a category disjoint from the physical, we will never be able to get it back in.
Derrida_ labels as __etaphysical_ any such thought system which depends on an unassailable foundation, a first principle or unimpeachable ground upon which a whole hierarchy of meanings may be constructed. It is not that he believes that we can merely rid ourselves of the urge to forge such first principles, for such an impulse is deeply embedded in our history, and cannot _ at least as yet _ be eradicated or ignored. Derrida would see his own work as inescapably __ontaminated_ by such metaphysical thought, much as he strives to give it the slip. But if you examine such first principles closely, you can see that they may always be __econstructed_: they can be shown to be products of a particular system of meaning, rather than what props it up from the outside.
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Derrida_ labels as __etaphysical_ any such thought system which depends on an unassailable foundation, a first principle or unimpeachable ground upon which a whole hierarchy of meanings may be constructed. It is not that he believes that we can merely rid ourselves of the urge to forge such first principles, for such an impulse is deeply embedded in our history, and cannot _ at least as yet _ be eradicated or ignored. Derrida would see his own work as inescapably __ontaminated_ by such metaphysical thought, much as he strives to give it the slip. But if you examine such first principles closely, you can see that they may always be __econstructed_: they can be shown to be products of a particular system of meaning, rather than what props it up from the outside.
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