Of position papers, paradigms, and paradoxes

Review article

“…Armed with Peirce's positive search for a 'logic of discovery' by way of abduction -the possibility of what might be, in contrast to induction, which leads one to realize the errors of one's ways, and deduction, that which is right on no uncertain terms -Santaella assures us that 'foundational principles' can finally be within reach. Without exactly taking up arms against my 'antifoundationalist' assertions (Merrell 1987), she proposes to place the question of 'foundations' on broader grounds (AC: 150-152). She reminds us that the relativist thesis cannot but be based on some imperious God's-eye grasp of the whole, thus it becomes as dogmatic as any other dogmatism around.…”