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The essential need, in other words, is the improvement of the methods and conditions of debate, discussion and persuasion.
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John Dewey
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Dewey emphasizes the need for improved methods of communication and debate in public discourse.
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There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.
In no two ages or places is there the same public.
What he believes, hopes for and aims at is the outcome of association and intercourse.
They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.