Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...philosopher, but he was also a man on the street, and that accounts for what is most characteristic in his philosophy. It is a practical philosophy, a philosophy of action. Dewey inherited from James the idea that human knowing springs from the needs of human action and never functions as anything more than a guide for action. He expanded James' insight, so that many of his writings are attempts to explain the good, the true, and the beautiful, the traditional subjects of metaphysical system building, by pointing out the function those concepts fill in successful human activity. What was Pragmatism...
...claims, "is that, even in the United States, that stage of the revolution of our times has been reached, 'that decisive hour," which Karl Marx acutely forecast 100 years ago: when 'a small section of the ruling class joins the revolutionary class.'" Yet when did the apparatus Chambers describes function?--during the Great Depression when a sojurn in the Communist Party became almost part of the regular political upbringing of bright young men. At no time does Chambers indicate this "terrible" apparatus got its hands on any important secrets...
Even CRIMSON cartoonist David G. Broaten '46, who pictured Lamont as above shortly before it opened in 1949, would never have anticipated the function members of the Class Day committee are currently trying to assign the library...
...function of the force we must build is to ensure that we shall continue to have freedom of choice . . . freedom to bring into play all the affirmative measures that have to do with the way people live, and that reflect the whole constructive outlook of America. The function of the force we must build is to prevent these opportunities from being foreclosed by the use of force from the other side . . . We believe that war will not happen if we can create in areas of political tension sufficient strength so that it will be absolutely clear in advance that...
...bureaumen refuse to conjecture what other duties these waves may perform, but their tight-lipped secrecy and intense interest suggest a military function. Best guess is that they may be used to steer guided missiles...