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Différance
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A term coined by Jacques Derrida to describe the difference, differing,
deferring, and deferral of meaning to which any signifying system gives
rise. Because language is composed of differences rather than positive
terms, the free play of signifiers is limitless.
(See also Deconstruction.)
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