John Dewey: “Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are…”

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Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.

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John Dewey

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Dewey argues that unexpressed ideas remain incomplete and lack true meaning.

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That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.

Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.

The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.

John Dewey: “Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and…”