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    Différance is a French term coined by Jacques Derrida that means both "to defer" and "to differ." The term plays on the double meaning of the French word "différer." While différance and différence are pronounced identically, the addition of the 'a' in différance subverts the privileging of speech over writing and the distinction between the sensible and the intelligible. The difference produced by the 'a' cannot be heard or understood through the senses alone.

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    Différance is a French term coined by Jacques Derrida that means both "to defer" and "to differ." The term plays on the double meaning of the French word "différer." While différance and différence are pronounced identically, the addition of the 'a' in différance subverts the privileging of speech over writing and the distinction between the sensible and the intelligible. The difference produced by the 'a' cannot be heard or understood through the senses alone.

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    Différance is a French term coined by Jacques Derrida that means both "to defer" and "to differ." The term plays on the double meaning of the French word "différer." While différance and différence are pronounced identically, the addition of the 'a' in différance subverts the privileging of speech over writing and the distinction between the sensible and the intelligible. The difference produced by the 'a' cannot be heard or understood through the senses alone.

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    Diffrance is a French term coined by Jacques Derrida, deliberately homophonous with the word "diffrence". Diffrance plays on the fact that the French word diffrer means both "to defer" and "to differ. (wikipedia) The a of diffrance is a deliberate "misspelling" of diffrence, though the two are pronounced identically . This highlights the fact that its written form is not heard, and serves to further subvert the traditional privileging of speech over writing (see archi-writing), as well as the distinction between the sensible and the intelligible. The difference articulated by the a in diffrance is not apparent to the senses via sound, "but neither cannot it belong to intelligibility, to the ideality which is not fortuitously associated with the objectivity of theorein or understanding." This is because the language of understanding is already caught up in sensible metaphors ("theory," for instance, in Greek, means "to see").

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