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It is an ideal in the only intelligible sense of an ideal: namely, the tendency and movement of some thing which exists carried to its final limit, viewed as completed, perfected.
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John Dewey
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Editor's note · Context
Dewey defines an ideal as the ultimate realization of a concept, emphasizing its developmental nature.
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