Book

How We Think

by John Dewey (1859–1952)

19 chapters, about 23,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 100 words
2. WHAT IS THOUGHT? 1,600 words
3. THE NEED FOR TRAINING THOUGHT 1,600 words
4. NATURAL RESOURCES IN THE TRAINING OF THOUGHT 1,800 words
5. SCHOOL CONDITIONS AND THE TRAINING OF THOUGHT 800 words
6. CHAPTER FIVE 1,400 words
7. THE ANALYSIS OF A COMPLETE ACT OF THOUGHT 1,000 words
8. SYSTEMATIC INFERENCE: INDUCTION AND DEDUCTION 1,500 words
9. JUDGMENT: THE INTERPRETATION OF FACTS 1,500 words
10. MEANING: OR CONCEPTIONS AND UNDERSTANDING 200 words
11. II. DIRECT AND INDIRECT UNDERSTANDING 1,800 words
12. CONCRETE AND ABSTRACT THINKING 1,300 words
13. EMPIRICAL AND SCIENTIFIC THINKING 1,200 words
14. ACTIVITY AND THE TRAINING OF THOUGHT 1,900 words
15. LANGUAGE AND THE TRAINING OF THOUGHT 1,900 words
16. OBSERVATION AND INFORMATION IN THE TRAINING OF MIND 1,300 words
17. THE RECITATION AND THE TRAINING OF THOUGHT 1,000 words
18. SOME GENERAL CONCLUSIONS 1,100 words
19. Discourse, consecutive, 185 f. 200 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Attitude (psychology)
• Judgement
• Judgment (law)
• Observation
• Open-mindedness
• Sign (semiotics)
• Thought (essay)

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