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“Conceptual historians of various stripes asked after the origins of ideas, but they sought them by tracing the changing meanings of words across different socio-historical contexts. My concern, by contrast, is with the practical origins of ideas: with the ways in which the ideas we live by can be shown to be rooted in practical needs and concerns generated by certain facts about us and our situation.” PragmatismSemanticsSocial HistoryIntellectual HistoryHistory Of IdeasPragmaticsConceptual History Book:The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering Source: The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering