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Raymond Geuss, Who Needs a World View?, 19 the future can be expected to hold surprises for us. Just as Marxists claim that large-scale “utopian speculation” about the future is empty and futile, either wishful thinking, an exaggerated projection of current fears, or just an extrapolation of present trends, pragmatists insist that the future is open, and we don’t know which features of our present situation are fads, idiosyncratic accidents, or passing phases, and which are not. If we did know this, we would not be in the situation in which we find ourselves. The concept of “truth” as traditionally understood prevents us from focusing appropriately on this openness and changeability of human experience, and thus constitutes an obstacle to free enquiry and human growth.