The concept of the metaphysics of presence is an important consideration within the area of deconstruction. The deconstructive interpretation holds that the entire history of Western philosophy and its language and traditions has emphasized the desire for immediate access to meaning, and thus built a metaphysics or ontotheology around the privileging of presence over absence.
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the belief that the thoughts we have in the present are more real than the thoughts that we read that were written elsewhere and in the past. The metaphysics of presence tells us that if I have this thought and write it down, it is forever mine.
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