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If no practical difference follows from either side, a dispute is idle
Drawn from what William James said
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- William James American philosopher and psychologist (1842 to 1910)
If no practical difference whatever can be traced, then the alternatives mean practically the same thing, and all dispute is idle. Whenever a dispute is serious, we ought to be able to show some practical difference that must follow from one side or the other's being right.
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↗Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907)gutenberg.org
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