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What is needed to direct and make fruitful social inquiry is a method which proceeds on the basis of the interrelations of observable acts and their results.
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John Dewey
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Dewey advocates for a method of social inquiry based on the interrelations of actions and their outcomes.
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We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.
The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.
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.