This set of ideas is a branch of postmodern thought known as “deconstructionism,” from the idea that texts can be deconstructed and reconstructed as suits the reader. Although this may seem pretty abstract, it has a number of important and immediate implications. The first, and hopefully most obvious, is that it eliminates the possibility of saying anything that is objectively true. All truth claims are equally true and equally false. And even if a speaker makes a subjective statement (“I am hot”), there is no guarantee that the listener will understand the statement in the way the speaker
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