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• President Obama is perhaps the most ideologically-motivated president in American history. But according to the ultimate authority, Barack Obama, he's a mere pragmatist.

  ― Ben Shapiro
  American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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• To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it?

  Source: The Conduct of Inquiry

  ― Abraham Kaplan
  American philosopher
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• ideologically-motivated
• operationist
• positivist
• statement
• question
• believe

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