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This was a bit too complex for me, but my position is simple. The real choice is between the view that objective truth is what matters (even if our understanding of it is inevitably partial and fallible) and the view that everyone can have their own truth. The latter viewpoint leads, in very short order, to Orwell's analysis of totalitarianism: truth is what the people in power say it is. That seems to me pretty much where Foucault and his followers ended up.

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That's precisely not what Foucault says.

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I'll take your word for it. I need to get on top of this some time.

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