An idealist is someone who believes there are essential books, but no essential course to history. A pragmatist believes the opposite.
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"Course to history" meaning a definitive direction or interpretation?
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. lawful phenomena that constrain more than we like to admit, but do not entirely determine, possible courses of evolution
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I was going to make a crack about you going all Hegelian but then you go and clarify things. 🙄



