But the difference between facts which are what they are independent of human desire and endeavor and facts which are to some extent what they are because of human interest and purpose, and which alter with alteration in the latter, cannot be got rid of by any methodology.
Dewey discusses the distinction between objective facts and those influenced by human interests, stressing the complexity of social science.
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There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.
They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.
Custom consolidates what accident may have originated; established power has a way of legitimizing itself.
In no two ages or places is there the same public.