Post-foundationalism

Reading American Nietzsche.

Ms. Ratner-Rosenhagen more than once defines "post-foundationalism" as the doctrine that "there are no universal truths."

I am not certain, but I surmise that by this she does not mean to deny the existence of true A or E propositions ("All men are mortal," "No men are immortal.") but that any proposition is true "for everybody."

But Germany invaded Russia in the summer of 1941 (or not).

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain (or not).

And, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan allegedly said, "Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not his own facts."

Whatever way the world is, it is some way, it is that way, and that's the way it is.

Truth, the absoluteness of truth, is inescapable.