logocentrismthus
Logocentrismthus is a neologism used in some critical-theory discussions to describe the consequence or culmination of logocentric assumptions in discourse. The term blends logocentrism—the privileging of speech, logos, and a present-origin source of meaning—with an inference marker to signal the expected outcomes of holding those premises.
The phrase is not standard in mainstream philosophy and appears mainly as a rhetorical device in post-structuralist
Derridean deconstruction challenges logocentrism by showing how meaning is unstable and how writing always participates in
Presence and absence, origin and authority of meaning, the role of language in shaping reality, and the
Scholars differ on how accurately logocentrism has been characterized and on the usefulness of the term logocentrismthus