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There Is Nothing To Be Known About Anything Except An Initially Large, And Forever Expandable, Web Of Relations To Other Things. Everything That Can Serve As A Term Of Relation Can Be Dissolved Into Another Set Of Relations, And So On For Ever. There Are, So To Speak, Relations All The Way Down, All The Way Up, And All The Way Out In Every Direction: You Never Reach Something Which Is Not Just One More Nexus Of Relations.

What Counts As Rational Argumentation Is As Historically Determined And As Context-dependent, As What Counts As Good French.

To Abjure The Notion Of The Truly Human Is To Abjure The Attempt To Divinize The Self As A Replacement For A Divinized World.

There Are Credentials For Admission To Our Democratic Society [...]. You Have To Be Educated In Order To Be A Participant In Our Conversation So We Are Going To Go Right On Trying To Discredit You In The Eyes Of Your Children, Trying To Strip Your Fundamentalist Religious Community Of Dignity, Trying To Make Your Views Seem Silly Rather Than Discussable. We Are Not So Inclusivist As To Tolerate Intolerance Such As Yours.

If I Had To Lay Bets, My Bet Would Be That Everything Is Going To Go To Hell, But, You Know, What Else Have We Got Except Hope?