Although it is easily shown that the economic approach is neither deducible from nor completely consistent with either system of ethics, this is not a decisive objection from a pragmatic standpoint. Pragmatists are unperturbed by a lack of foundations.

DEFINE: Clarifies the pragmatist stance: they dismiss foundational incoherence as irrelevant, focusing on practical outcomes instead.

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