Jacque Derrida, of Grammatology (The Written Being/The Being Written)

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Jacque Derrida, Of Grammatology (The Written Being/The Being Written)
-According to Derrida,we should not view speech as more fundamental than reading and writing for all of the following reasons except which?

• A)Reading and writing originate new meanings every bit as much as speech does.
• B)The focus on the present (when speech acts originally occur)is an arbitrary bias.
• C)Heidegger demonstrated once and for the true nature of being and it applies to all times.
• D)The notions of presence and being are too unclear to ground important distinctions.

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