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"If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that man would be erased, like a face drawn in sand at the edge of the sea."
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Source: The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences ch. 10 (1966)
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