Original sentence: " The latter, everyday, meaning has a tenuous relation, if any, to the former, philosophical, meaning.In everyday use, the ter, deconstruction is a synonym for criticism, analysis, debunking, or commentary with an overtone of questioning motives, conscious or otherwise, for producing a work; occasionally it is simply a synonym for "destruction.Philosophers and literary scholars with Derridean or deconstructive points of view describe themselves, or more often their work, as "deconstructive.This article focuses specifically on the former, more narrowly philosophical sense of the term
Edited sentence: "  The latter, everyday, meaning has a tenuous relation, if any, to the former, philosophical, meaning.(A terminological note: Practicing philosophers and literary scholars with Derridean or deconstructive points of view describe themselves, or more often their work, as "deconstructive.Again, most such criticisms are actually aimed at a much broader post-modernism, while some, but relatively few, bear specifically on deconstruction.Critics of deconstruction often believe it to advocate irrationalism, absolute relativism, radical social constructivism, opposition to science or history, anti-realism, subjectivism, and/or solipsism.Cultural critics' writings on science, mathematics, and history have often proved controversial, sparking what some historians refer to as a war against truth and history, and what some scientists see as a war against science and logic.In everyday use, deconstruction is a synonym for criticism, analysis, debunking, or commentary with an overtone of questioning motives, conscious or otherwise, for producing a work; occasionally it is simply a synonym for "destruction.None of these claims is supported by a careful reading of Derrida's work (or any other eminent texts of deconstruction).Norris argues for the importance of deconstruction to philosophy and to the philosophy of science, but is quite hostile to post-modernism.The goal of such arguments is often a broader indictment of post-modernism based on the work of Lyotard, Baudrillard, or other writers relatively uninvolved with deconstruction.The philosopher Christopher Norris delineates this difference in books such as What's Wrong With Post-Modernism and Deconstruction and the "Unfinished Project of Modernity".The rest of this article focuses on the former, more narrowly philosophical sense of the term