Gerald Bivens
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If there is anything distinctive about pragmatism it is that it substitutes the notion of a better human future for the notions of 'reality', 'reason' and 'nature'. One may say of pragmatism what Novalis said of Romanticism, that it is 'the apotheosis of the future'.
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- Richard Rorty, "Truth without Correspondence to Reality," in Title (City of Publication: Publisher, Year Published), 27.