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Now Blackburn offers a tour de force exploration of what he calls \"the most exciting and engaging issue in the whole of philosophy\"--the age-old war over truth.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The front lines of this war are well defined. On one side are those who believe in plain, unvarnished facts, rock-solid truths that can be found through reason and objectivity--that science leads to truth, for instance. Their opponents mock this idea. They see the dark forces of language, culture, power, gender, class, ideology and desire--all subverting our perceptions of the world, and clouding our judgement with false notions of absolute truth. 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