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Reason comes into play only to find justification for the opinion which has been adopted, instead of to analyze human behavior with respect to its consequences and to frame polities accordingly.
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John Dewey
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Dewey critiques the use of reason to justify pre-existing opinions rather than to analyze behavior.
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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.
That and that only gives reality to public opinion.
The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.