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John Dewey: “The moral is to drop all doctrines of this kind overboard, and stick to facts verifiably ascertained.”

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The moral is to drop all doctrines of this kind overboard, and stick to facts verifiably ascertained.
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John Dewey

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Dewey advocates for a focus on verifiable facts rather than abstract doctrines in political discourse.

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