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The apparatus will no longer be taken to be itself knowledge, but will be seen to be intellectual means of making discoveries of phenomena having social import and understanding their meaning.
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John Dewey
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Dewey asserts that the tools of inquiry should not be mistaken for knowledge itself but should aid in discovering social phenomena.
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