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[Becky Lindroos]

Yep - that’s why I typed it thusly - “(the method-“philosophy”)" .  The real “Pragmatist” thinkers were more like practitioners of philosophy than actual philosophers - for the most part they established methods but not results although I’d submit that their eventual individual goals included results.  The whole movement was a side-result of the Civil War.   It might be interesting to look into the origins of Pragmatist thinking *other than* the Civil War  - not necessarily written works,  but evidence derived from the “American” experience including frontier life, the Revolutionary War, development of the Constitution and other documents, etc.  It came from somewhere - and it is SO American. 

Bek


> On Jan 8, 2015, at 8:13 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/0541.htm
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> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com> wrote:
>> I think “Pragmatism” (the method- “philosophy”) likely bears on almost any (not all)  reading of Americana.
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>> Bekah
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>>> On Jan 8, 2015, at 7:05 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Just reading about Wm James last evening. It turns out "inner life" is a term he used meaningfully. The olde American functionalist / pragmatist approach certainly bears on any reading of Pynchon, whether as source or butt of the satire.
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