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The appeal to causal forces at large not only misleads inquiry into social facts, but it affects equally seriously the formation of purposes and policies.
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John Dewey
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Dewey argues that reliance on broad causal forces misguides social inquiry and policy formation.
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But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.
That and that only gives reality to public opinion.
Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.
We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.