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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