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Essays in Experimental Logic

by John Dewey (1859–1952)

51 chapters, about 100,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. INTRODUCTION 100 words
2. I 1,500 words
3. II 1,800 words
4. III 1,500 words
5. IV 2,300 words
6. V 2,700 words
7. VI 3,600 words
8. VII 3,100 words
9. FOOTNOTES: 700 words
10. THE RELATIONSHIP OF THOUGHT AND ITS SUBJECT-MATTER 6,600 words
11. THE ANTECEDENTS AND STIMULI OF THINKING 7,500 words
12. DATA AND MEANINGS 4,100 words
13. [24] I, 28-34. 400 words
14. THE OBJECTS OF THOUGHT 6,000 words
15. SOME STAGES OF LOGICAL THOUGHT 8,600 words
16. THE LOGICAL CHARACTER OF IDEAS 2,000 words
17. I 1,400 words
18. II 1,000 words
19. III 1,000 words
20. IV 1,100 words
21. I 700 words
22. II 1,200 words
23. III 800 words
24. IV 300 words
25. X 600 words
26. I 1,600 words
27. II 1,400 words
28. III 300 words
29. FOOTNOTE: 200 words
30. XI 200 words
31. I 2,600 words
32. II 1,300 words
33. WHAT PRAGMATISM MEANS BY PRACTICAL 500 words
34. I 1,700 words
35. II 3,000 words
36. III 1,100 words
37. AN ADDED NOTE AS TO THE "PRACTICAL" 1,100 words
38. THEIR NATURE 2,900 words
39. I 2,100 words
40. II 3,000 words
41. III 1,000 words
42. IV 2,500 words
43. V 1,200 words
44. SENSE PERCEPTION AS KNOWLEDGE 600 words
45. I 1,500 words
46. II 900 words
47. III 1,600 words
48. IV 400 words
49. SCIENCE AS A PRACTICAL ART 4,500 words
50. THEORY AND PRACTICE 1,600 words
51. INDEX 400 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Color
• Critique
• Efficiency
• Epistemology
• Essay
• Essays (Francis Bacon)
• Inference
• Mechanism (philosophy)
• Pragmatism
• Proof (truth)
• Reference
• Sense data
• Thought
• Transcendence (religion)
• Uncertainty

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