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science cannot admit:
condition of knowledge.
that the absurdity of tautology is a
As Daumal avers, "['plataphysical
arguments do not necessarily set up systems designed to
demonstrate the truth of this or that proposition;" insteed,
"[tlhey generally develop as vicîous circles and bring the
human spirit to a limit-state of stupor and scandal" (112).
Derrida, for example, does not simply oppose a thesis
with its antithesis, nor does he even equate them to a third
term of synthesis--nor does Derrida simply invert this
system of value between thesis and antithesis, but affirms
(and denies) both sides of this dialectic, revealing the
undecidable contradiction that always appears to makes such
a relation both possible and impossible at the same time:
"[tlhe break with this structure of belonging can be
announced only through[ ...] a certain strateaic arrangement
which, within the field of metaphysical opposition, uses the
strengths of the field to turn its own stratagems against
it, producing a force of dislocation that spreads itself
throughout the entire system, fissuring it in every
direction and thoroughly delimitinq it" (1978:SO).
Jarry, Nietzsche, and Derrida, do not defend the truth
of their own sophism so much as flout the truisms of truth
itself--its self-evidence, its self-awereness.
Daumal even