John Dewey: “But it is not often noted how fatal they are to the identification of…”

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But it is not often noted how fatal they are to the identification of social with physical uniformities.

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John Dewey

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Dewey warns against equating social laws with physical laws, noting the unique nature of human society.

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Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.

We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.

The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.

Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.

John Dewey: “But it is not often noted how fatal they are to the identification of social with physical uniformities.”