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Dewey, John
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Definition: John Dewey (1859-1952) was American philosopher, psychologist and educator who promoted the ideas of both pragmatism and humanism.

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Assuming that we have established that we have an actual argument, the next step is to examine it for validity. There are two points on which an argument might fail: its premises or its inferences.

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