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John Dewey: “Such theories merely reduplicate in a so-called causal force the effects to be accounted for.”

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Such theories merely reduplicate in a so-called causal force the effects to be accounted for.
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John Dewey

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Dewey argues that such theories merely restate the effects they seek to explain without providing real insight.

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