如果将真理的绝对主义与相对主义之吊诡称作“真理的二律背反”, 那么近数十年来, 许多哲学问题都是为了解决这个二律背反。希拉里·普特南、卡尔-奥托·阿佩尔、尤尔根·哈贝马斯似乎试图表明真理的绝对主义不必导致形而上学, 而理查德·罗蒂则试图表明对真理的绝对主义的批判不必导致相对主义。通过对上述两方围绕真理问题论争之理论基础的分析, 可以看到真理、偶然性与现代性之间的内在关联。

If the peculiar relationship between truth's absolutism and relativism can be called "truth's antinomy, " many philosophical issues over recent several decades of years aim at solving this antinomy. Hilary Putnam, Karl-Otto Apel and Jurgen Habermas all seem to say that absolutism of truth does not necessarily lead to metaphysics, whereas Richard Rorty attempts to say that criticisms of truth's absolutism do not necessarily result in relativism. Through an analysis of the above-mentioned two parties' debates on truth, those inherent relations among truth, contingency and modernity can be observed.