While it may be correct to argue that there is no such thing as a single “true reality” of the past, without some corrective methodology in hand to begin with there is no control over any of the discussion. Postmodernists may, and have, raised serious questions concerning the issue of how one’s own biases affect the interpretations and meaning(s) given to texts (see below). They have also argued that no claim to truth is absolute (unless, of course, this last observation is “true,” in which case