There emerged a tacit agreement between the two men that Dean's position negated his direct involvement in officially pursuing the investigation.
Thus scepticism and relativism are superseded by a historical philosophy, and the absoluteness of truth is affirmed, but the notion of a definite truth is at the same time both negated and satirized.
This human failure does not mean that God's power and ability to heal is thereby negated.
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Its huge size makes it awkward and unwieldy, so the supposed practicality of it is completely negated.