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To: buwaya
Pragmatism is an essential component of the classic idea of conservative thought.

What passes for pragmatism nowadays is actually nothing but short-sightedness and an extreme unwillingness to pay the price for what actually endures.

196 posted on 09/14/2009 6:48:39 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (We're winning.) (Please visit www.AIPNEWS.com)
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To: EternalVigilance

Indeed ?

I would say that it is presumtuous to assert with such certainty that we can know “what actually endures”.


221 posted on 09/14/2009 6:56:24 PM PDT by buwaya
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