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This document discusses how postmodern literature uses scare quotes around terms like "scientific truth" and "technological progress" to cast doubt on them. It argues that this stems from three forces: destroying the common understanding of concepts by dogmatic interpretations; misrepresenting and stereotyping critics; and muddled thinking from attacks on rationality. Specifically, it asserts that postmodernists wrongly equate commonsense notions of truth with the unachievable "Absolute Truth," and equate d

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