Dewey gathers his essays from Studies in Logical Theory with later papers to argue that thinking arises from concrete problems and is controlled by its consequences. He examines data and meanings, the logical character of ideas, naive and presentative realism, the existence of the world as a logical problem, and what pragmatism means by practical.
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