Questions 13-15 refer to the following passage.

Select the sentence which states a position with which the author does NOT agree.

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(5) The anti-foundationalist belief that there is no secure basis for knowledge was worked out philosophically in the somewhat wearisome Line tracts of Jacques Derrida. Différance, Derrida tells us, is the idea that any attempts to discuss. universal features of human nature are merely products of local standards, often serving the vested interests of the status quo, and should rightly be dismantled and critiqued. Derrida was (10) considered the originator of a profound chal- lenge to the history of human thought. However, a century before Derrida, Darwin's theory of natural selection had made anti-foundationalism almost an inevitable consequence. From an (15) evolutionary point of view, our understanding of the world depends on earlier and less-developed forms of understanding; meaning is continuously referred or deferred to other terms or experiences.