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But the power of physical facts to coerce belief does not reside in the bare phenomena.
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John Dewey
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gutenberg.orgJohn Dewey: “But the power of physical facts to coerce belief does not reside in the bare phenomena.”
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Dewey argues that the significance of physical facts is not found in the facts themselves but in the methods used to interpret them.
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