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Levin's Conclusion

"We have found that virtually all critics of objectivity say something like the following:

  1. It is an objective fact that there are no objective facts.
  2. It is absolutely true that everything is relative to a framework.
  3. No one can divorce himself from his social milieu to examine his society with a critical eye, and that conclusion is the result of my having done so.
  4. There is evidence for the position that there is no such thing as evidence.
In each case the skeptic states a position that cannot possibly be substantiated or rationally believed. In each case he is, in effect, asking that you not apply his assertion to his own position, without giving any reason for exempting his words from his own general claim. His position is futile and self-refuting ..." (P 222a)

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