What is Writing/Editing Backwards Really?

I'm curious to know because I was thinking that when people say this, I'm thinking they start editing the last chapter of their work to the first, and see if it all makes sense in the end. When I search on the Internet, it seems this is not what people mean by that. What I searched is that editing backwards is just reading paragraphs literally backwards, and one would have to still start on the first chapter. I don't understand this at all; it's counterproductive in my opinion. Which one do you think is more productive, and more beneficial for writers during their editing process? Reading each paragraph literally backwards, or starting on the last chapter to the first to see if one's story makes sense logically?

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