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kairos12

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4. Bismark was a political realist. He needed a pressure relief valve

Reply to Fortinbras Armstrong (Original post)

Fri May 9, 2014, 02:48 PM

May 2014

from the social pressures that were sweeping Europe. He used his socialized medicine program as a way to do this. It makes him a pragmatist, not a socialist.

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I need a name for a logical fallacy [View all] Fortinbras Armstrong Dec 2013 OP

This link might help Galileo126 Dec 2013 #1

I looked there, thanks Fortinbras Armstrong Dec 2013 #3

Sounds like Affirming the consequent rrneck Dec 2013 #2

Bismark was a political realist. He needed a pressure relief valve kairos12 May 2014 #4