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The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930

Book by John Dewey · 7 quotes · Distinction, Objects, Quality

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All Distinction Objects Quality Reason Wells Whole Abstraction Adapted Attitude Becoming Calling Can Do Clear Commonplace Complexes Concerned Conditions Conflict Consciousness Creatures

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“We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.”

Men Reason Lost Emotion Habit Creatures Creatures Of Habit Lost Confidence

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“The only thing that is unqualifiedly given is the total pervasive quality; and the objection to calling it "given" is that the word suggests something to which it is given, mind or thought or consciousness or whatever, as well possibly as something that gives.”

Giving Mind Wells Given Consciousness Quality Calling Objections

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“It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem signifies that the underlying quality is being transformed into determinate distinctions of terms and relations or has become an object of articulate thought.”

Way Wells Problem Term Quality Objects Solutions Relation Statements Distinction Transformed Commonplace

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“Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. Ifwe are to continue talking about "data" in any other sense than as reflective distinctions, the original datum is always such a qualitative whole.”

Whole Language Can Do Justice Talking Failing Originals Symbols Data Distinction Fullness Richness Qualitative

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“It is merely a linguistic peculiarity, not a logical fact, that we say "that is red" instead of "that reddens," either in the sense of growing, becoming, red, or in the sense of making something else red.”

Facts Growing Becoming Red Logical

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“The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear.... For this reason I do not think that those who are concerned about the future of a religious attitude should trouble themselves about the conflict of science with traditional doctrines.”

Thinking Should Reason Religion Social Religious Attitude Clear Trouble Conditions Conflict Intellectual Concerned Doctrine Traditional Adapted Social Conditions

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“By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.”

Whole Objects Elements Complexes Defined Distinction Abstraction

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