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educe

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.

—p.118 Education as Socialization and as Individualization (114) by Richard M. Rorty
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ceteris paribus

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

—p.105 Pragmatism and Law: A Response to David Luban (104) by Richard M. Rorty
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vicissitudes

something exempt from the vicissitudes of time and history

—p.82 Ethics Without Principles (72) by Richard M. Rorty
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abnegation

a wholesale abnegation of our aspirations to something 'higher' than mere animality

—p.80 Ethics Without Principles (72) by Richard M. Rorty
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banausic

confused duty with self-interest, the intrinsic authority of the moral law with the banausic need to bargain with opponents whom one cannot overcome

probably related to "banal"?

—p.74 Ethics Without Principles (72) by Richard M. Rorty
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