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Archaeology of Knowledge, p. 125, English trans.:

To describe a group of statements not as a closed, plethoric totality of =
meaning but as an incomplete, fragmented figure, in accordance with the =
dispersion of an exteriority; to describe a group of statements in order =
to rediscover the specific forms of an accumulation--is certainly not to =
uncover an interpretation, discover a foundation, free constituent acts, =
nor is it to decide on a rationality or to embrace a teleology. It is to =
establish a *positivity*. To analyze a discursive formation is to define =
the type of positivity of a discourse. If by substituting the analysis =
of rarity for the search for totalities, the description of relations of =
exteriority for the theme of transcendental foundation, the analysis of =
accumulations for the quest of the origin, means one is a positivist, =
then I am quite happy to be one.


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