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In any event, social philosophy exhibits an immense gap between facts and doctrines.
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John Dewey
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Dewey points out the significant disconnect between empirical facts and the philosophical doctrines that attempt to explain them.
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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.
Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.
Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.