ABSTRACT
The first step in my critical application of refoundational philosophy is in relation to epistemological nihilism. Section i of this chapter will outline Derrida’s extreme position. It will then be shown how – contra Derrida – the emergence of meaning as a function of the field of signifiers does not radically destabilize either meaning or more general categorial frameworks. The reason why is that signification – as Derrida admits – depends on the iterability of signs. Iterability – as I will go on to show – presupposes precisely that principle of reciprocity which is the basis of refoundational philosophy.
