When we say that thinking and beliefs should be experimental, not absolutistic, we have then in mind a certain logic of method, not, primarily, the carrying on of experimentation like that of laboratories.
Dewey emphasizes the importance of an experimental approach to thinking and beliefs, contrasting it with absolutism.
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The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.
We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.
Systematic and continuous inquiry into all the conditions which affect association and their dissemination in print is a precondition of the creation of a true public.
Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.