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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
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American Pragmatism
A, i think pragmatism is one of these strange words that has a very loose meaning in everyday life. It just means practical, in naw, reasonable a, you know, just let's go with what works. And then william james, who was a much bigger deal philosopher, kind of picked up the word and made it his own. He had some funny line about how picking a word like that, a, he thought, a a, the baby was so ugly that he wouldn't have to live in fear of someone trying to adopt it from him,. A, and so purse is not really part of the story of american pragmatism. You can tell
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