William and Mary Law Review, October 1st, 2001
The agreement of people in calculation is not an agreement in opinions or convictions.
--Ludwig Wittgenstein (1)
INTRODUCTION
The protagonists battle on. Trumpeting right answers, (2) foundations, (3)
and truth, (4) objectivists lash out against the unrelenting tide of nihilism, postmodernism, and deconstruction. (5) Armed with the tools of literary theory, antifoundationalism, and Kuhnian (6) "relativism," subjectivists (7) dismiss the dreams of objectivism as philosophical illusions. But the "conflict" between these two camps is vastly overstated. In fact, the entire debate depends upo...
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