 Derrida’s deconstruction poses a challenge to Gadamer’s notion of the success of understanding as a hermeneutical experience of truth. Gadamer, as we have said, trusts that our experience of truth really involves a determinate claim. Derrida’s considerations suggest, however, that such trust is misplaced. If, in the success of understanding, our experience purports to involve a determinate claim to truth, then our experience of this determinacy must be misguided, since the possibility of determinacy is precluded in advance by différance. As Derrida puts the point during the 1981 initial meeting with Gadamer, “I am not convinced that we ever really have this experience that Professor Gadamer describes, of knowing in a dialogue that one has been perfectly understood or experiencing the success of confirmation” (Derrida, “Three Questions to Hans-Georg Gadamer,” 54). Indeed, in an important early essay, Derrida maintains that the pursuit of success of such a kind is not merely misguided, but a symptom of our suppression, perhaps repression, of an anxiety about the insuperable role of heterogeneity involved in all interpretive experience (Derrida, “Structure Sign and Play,” 292).