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Old Jan 19th, 2004, 04:01 PM       
Rorty denies necessary truths. Truth, to him, is relative to the historical context in which it was placed.

Thus, those Nazis who denied the holocaust were actually doing a good thing, as they were trying to bring it about that the holocaust had never happened.

This is not that far from the theories of self-legitimizing societal narratives that Lyotard proposed, or really any of the other postmodern theories.

Really, though, postmodernism appears to be self-contradicting on grand scale.
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