 A further important controversy about the consequences of Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics arises in the context of Derrida’s project of deconstruction. While the relation between hermeneutics and deconstruction is complex, pivotal for the controversy is whether the success of understanding really achieves a determinate meaning. Gadamer, as we have seen, maintains that the success of understanding is to understand something in its being, as it genuinely or truly is. Moreover, we experience such a truth as a claim, one that we can agree or disagree with, and that purports to be justified by the interpretive experience which first gives rise to it. Yet, as we may now observe, Gadamer’s notion of the success of understanding thereby trusts in the authenticity of our own experience that we really have come to understand something determinate, or, in any case, determinate enough that it makes a claim of truth. Derrida’s deconstruction poses a challenge to this idea because Derrida argues that discursive experience is governed by an operation—or, perhaps better, a structure of inoperativity—that would preclude the possibility of understanding something with such determinacy (see Lawlor 2019).