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Tue 21 Oct, 2014 07:23 am
Hi, I read a quote from John Dewey as follows " Even when thinking is used in a broad sense, it is usually restricted to matters not directly perceived: to what we do not see, smell , hear or touch" by that logic we couldn't think about anything as everything or most things we thinks of we have directly seen at some point. Can any one give me their opinion on the quote as it is doing my head in.
Please someone get back the quote is by John Dewey.
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@steve 101,
He qualifies the statement with "usually", so your notion of "that logic" falls down, and also I believe he is referring to what people usually mean when they talk about "thinking", rather than the nature of the act of cogitation itself.
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