Deconstruction

A central premise of deconstruction is that all of Western literature and philosophy implicitly relies on a metaphysics of presence,1213 where intrinsic meaning is accessible by virtue of pure presence.1415 Deconstruction denies the possibility of a pure presence and thus of essential or intrinsic and stable meaning — and thus a relinquishment of the notions of absolute truth, unmediated access to "reality" and consequently of conceptual hierarchy. "From the moment that there is meaning there are nothing but signs. We think only in signs."Language, considered as a system of signs, as Ferdinand de Saussure says,24 is nothing but differences. Words have meaning only because of contrast-effects with other words. 'Red' means what it does only by contrast with 'blue', 'green', etc. 'Being' also means nothing except by contrast, not only with 'beings' but with 'Nature', 'God', 'Humanity', and indeed every other word in the language. No word can acquire meaning in the way in which philosophers from Aristotle to Bertrand Russell have hoped it might—by being the unmediated expression of something non-linguistic (e.g., an emotion, a sense-datum, a physical object, an idea, a Platonic Form).25 Derrida terms logocentrism the philosophical commitment to pure, unmediated, presence as a source of self-sufficient meaning.

No true definition can be derived, so this space is wasted trying to explain deconstruction.

by deconstructionexpert March 12, 2014

deco

Short for Declan.
In Ireland its usually the letter 'O' anto johnodamo

Whats your name?
Declan.
Haha is that top deco or bottom deco?
Fuck off you cunt.

by womoma April 15, 2005

decent

a nice way to say someone is not cute

Girl 1: What did your blind date look like?

Me: Umm, he was decent.

by apriletta November 19, 2003

decent weinering

An average sexual encounter. Nothing great nothing terrible just average sex.

I'm going to give that girl a decent weinering

by Buddy johnny November 27, 2017

deacon

British slang for the penis.

"You'd fancy a shag? Let's ask The Deacon what he thinks about that."

by David McTavish Jr. June 20, 2006

Debonaire

A person who is raww as ever and sexy heavyflow he is not nice.

Look at debonaire he sexy

by yellow hammer May 18, 2014

Dcon

DCON is shot for Desert Conflict, a mod for Battlefield 2. It brings to the player the 1991 Gulf War conflict. Many people dislike the mod because it is trying to be the famous Desert Combat modification of BF1942. After all, they do use a similar name and slogan, and even say in their 'About Us' section that they are they next DC.

Whatever your beliefs are, the DCON team is a talented group and have some nice stuff.

Player 1 - "DCON will be similar to DCOM"

Player 2 - "DCOM, WTF is that?"

Player 1 - "Uhh, desert combat, duh!"

Player 2 - "You dumbass, Desert Combat is DC, and DC ONLY. Don't add that gay little OM at the end of it!"

by Desert Combat May 21, 2006