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this is a central point at issue in historicizing philosophy, it's about how you situate your own thought within the world as you find it and as it finds you
which is kind of the interesting insight of pragmatism that you find yourself with positions first and the constructs come after, so they are motivated and are not arbitrary in terms of content or form and are contextually tethered, although once articulated they take on a life of their own