This fact makes irrelevant both pæans and condemnations based upon conceptual interpretations of democracy, which, whether true or false, good or bad, are reflections of facts in thought, not their causal authors.
Dewey critiques simplistic interpretations of democracy, arguing they are reflections rather than causes.
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