Book

Studies in Logical Theory

by John Dewey (1859–1952)

41 chapters, about 121,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PREFACE 700 words
2. I 6,800 words
3. II 7,700 words
4. THOUGHT AND ITS SUBJECT-MATTER: THE DATUM OF THINKING 4,300 words
5. IV 6,300 words
6. A CRITICAL STUDY OF BOSANQUET'S THEORY OF JUDGMENT[44] 13,300 words
7. I 900 words
8. II 3,500 words
9. THE NATURE OF HYPOTHESIS 900 words
10. I 3,300 words
11. II 4,100 words
12. III 4,100 words
13. IMAGE AND IDEA IN LOGIC 6,000 words
14. THE LOGIC OF THE PRE-SOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY[87] 7,300 words
15. VALUATION AS A LOGICAL PROCESS 500 words
16. I 2,600 words
17. II 2,900 words
18. III 6,800 words
19. IV 15,200 words
20. V 4,400 words
21. VI 2,300 words
22. INTRODUCTORY 1,800 words
23. I. THE PURPOSIVE CHARACTER OF IDEAS 1,900 words
24. II. PURPOSE AND THE JUDGMENT 2,500 words
25. III. THE CRITERION OF TRUTH AND ERROR 2,900 words
26. IV. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 3,000 words
27. ABSOLUTE SELF, 330. 300 words
28. BUTLER, J., 277. 200 words
29. DEMONSTRATIVE JUDGMENT, 134. 100 words
30. "EGOISM, NEO-HEGELIAN," 316. 600 words
31. HUTCHESON, F., 301. 400 words
32. JEVONS, W. STANLEY, 169, 173. 200 words
33. KEPLER, 146, 181. 400 words
34. NEO-HEGELIAN, 43, 316. 500 words
35. QUESTION: and judgment, 97, 114 ff. 200 words
36. REFLECTIVE JUDGMENT, 134. 300 words
37. SOPHISTS, THE, 225. 300 words
38. SUPPOSITION AND HYPOTHESIS, 178-81. 100 words
39. TRANSCENDENTALISM, 29, 43-8. 300 words
40. FOOTNOTES 500 words
41. [90] H 99. 600 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Analogy
• Aphasia
• Atomism
• Circle
• Conscience
• Expert
• Folk psychology
• Heraclitus (commentator)
• Hypothesis
• Judgement
• Judgment (law)
• Judgment (mathematical logic)
• Objectivity (science)
• Person
• Predicate (logic)
• Reference
• Scientism
• Self
• Theory
• Thought (essay)

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