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17 (...) If, as some postmodernists maintain, there is no Archimedean standpoint which makes objective knowledge about an external reality possible, then the very process of separating ‘theory’ from ‘practice’, or the ‘subject’ from the ‘object’ it seeks to comprehend, is deeply problematical.