The alternative to one or other of these conclusions is surrender of the causal authorship theory and the adoption of that of widely distributed consequences, which, when they are perceived, create a common interest and the need of special agencies to care for it.
Dewey advocates for a shift from a causal authorship theory to one that recognizes shared consequences.
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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.
Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.
We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.
Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.