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Abdolkarim Soroush holds that the criterion for critiquing instrumental ideas is not truth or falsity, but their capacity to achieve the intended end. If these instrumental ideas fail to deliver their purpose, they are discarded, and the ideological system they form must also be free of contradiction.
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