{{ux|en|The integral of 1/x on [1/2,1] is ln (2), but the integral of the same function on (0,1] diverges. In notation, ∫_( frac )1 2¹1/xdx= ln (2), but ∫₀¹1/xdx=∞.}}

After two glasses of whiskey, Tom soon dropped off in front of the television.

In other words, Margolis's critical account of archism is motivated by the belief that no one has ever managed to show that the possibility of meaningful discourse truly presupposes a commitment to the archist's thesis, and that discourses must be constrained by such factors the conforming to which the archist introduces as necessary, such as to the principle of noncontradiction. Margolis challenges the alleged authority of this position by outlining an an-archist philosophy, which maintains that reality may be a flux, that is, lacking invariant structure or lacking necessarilty invariant structure, and that rational thought need not invoke such invariances.

Why did he keep writing all those years for nothing? Not for nothing. For him.