The pragmatists were a school of American philosophers who emphasized
a. the provisional and fallible nature of knowledge and the value of ideas that solved problems.
b. that most academic knowledge was based on bourgeois ideas that oppressed the working class.
c. that the traditional Greek ideals of Plato and Aristotle should be revived.
d. that scientific experimentation provided a new and absolutely certain basis for knowledge.
e. All of these choices are correct.
a
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A) ?a less radical arm of the Soviet Communist Party. B) ?the first satellite to orbit earth, launched by the Soviets. C) ?an American movement calling for the end of the nuclear arms race. D) ?Khrushchev's policy for governmental reform. E) ?None of these are correct.
Which of the following can be described as a standardized public activity, participated in by blacks and whites, males and females, which brought emotional release, sociability, and moral order to the frontier after 1800?
A. the camp meeting B. the slave auction C. the political "electioneering" rally D. the barn raising
Nationalism
a. was a potential threat to the existing political order. b. had major support only in western, Atlantic-coast Europe until the late 1860s. c. was firmly opposed by Bismarck and Cavour. d. won speedy acceptance across Europe because every government was helped by it. e. died out by the late nineteenth century.
Gender homophobia plays a crucial role in the trades in all of the following ways except:
a. isolating and dividing tradeswomen. b. undermining tradeswomen’s efforts to engage in collective resistance. c. tradeswomen’s efforts to demonstrate their competence on the job. d. undermining tradeswomen’s efforts to create solidarity.