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all the great dualisms of Western philosophy--reality and appearance, pure radiance and diffuse reflection, mind and body, intellectual rigour and sensual sloppiness, orderly semiotics and rambling semiosis

He is in a mood of wry abjuration

Dewey's great contribution to the theory of education was to help us get rid of the idea that education is a matter of either inducing or educing truth.

this philosophical ignoramus could, ceteris paribus, be just as good a judge

something exempt from the vicissitudes of time and history