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As I have reflected on these words, it seems to me that I am certainly one who believes more than he believes the very foundations of his own conduct that the ultimate good he desires is better reached by free trade in ideas, and so on. What other than such a belief could lie behind my commendation of a critical, nondogmatic way of holding one's religious beliefs? Or my argument that what genuine dialogue requires is not the recognition of one another's truths and values, but only a recognition of one another's truth- and value--claims as exactly that_---claims _ to validity that are equally in need and equally deserving of critical validation?

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