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The failure of such a theory to reach practical solutions is, therefore, a further confirmation of the theory which emphasizes the consequences of activity as the essential affair.
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John Dewey
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Dewey asserts that theories focusing on the consequences of actions are more practical and effective than those based on fixed definitions.
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The local communities without intent or forecast found their affairs conditioned by remote and invisible organizations.
Extensive, enduring, intricate and serious indirect consequences of the conjoint activity of a comparatively few persons traverse the globe.
The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.
In no two ages or places is there the same public.