It insists upon the radical contingency of any historical tradition as an effect of the play of traces; it denies that any such tradition has a privileged access to the essence or Wesen of things and hence to any deep truth, and settles instead for the insistence of the event. That means it settles for a more contingent truth and is more nominalistic about beliefs and more pluralistic about traditions. It takes beliefs and practices to be but relatively stable and hence also relatively unstable, and provisional unities of meaning inscribed in différance or, as Derrida liked to put it later on,
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