 With Wittgenstein, he holds that "what has to be accepted, the given, is – so one could say – forms of life" (PI; 226).Finally, Margolis sees Foucault's "historical a-priori" as a fair replacement for Kant's transcendental a-priori.Margolis has extensively criticized what he sees as scientism in philosophy, singling out thinkers such as Noam Chomsky, Paul Churchland, Jerry Fodor, and Daniel Dennett as modern-day defenders of invariance.