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When it is then applied, it is in ways which explain the unfavorable sense so often attached to “application” and the “utilitarian”: namely, use for pecuniary ends to the profit of a few.
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John Dewey
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Here, Dewey critiques the common negative perception of 'application' as being solely for profit.
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