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Richard M. Rorty Quotes: Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.
         

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.


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This page presents the quote "Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.". Author of this quote is Richard M. Rorty. This quote is about relativism, pragmatism, truth,.