Final Exam Topic

IV. DEWEY

Dewey writes:

“Knowledge is a perception of those connections of an object which determine its applicability in a given situation.”

(a) What does he mean by this? (b) How does he explicate this idea through his example of the modern and savage understandings of the “flaming comet”?

Dewey then writes:

“Two aspects of this more general and freer availability of former experiences for subsequent ones may be distinguished”, and cites as the second of these two aspects the alleged fact that it “increases the meaning, the experienced significance, attaching to an experience.”