 | Frederick Charles Copleston - 1966 - 594 sider
...his actual practice. 4. We have noted the stress which Dewey lays on inquiry, inquiry being denned as 'the controlled or directed transformation of an indeterminate...elements of the original situation into a unified whole'.2 He calls, therefore, for a new logic of inquiry. If the Aristotelian logic is considered purely... | |
 | John Dewey - 1977 - 758 sider
...noted. That this reading is the one officially accredited seems to me quite clear. Inquiry is defined as "the controlled or directed transformation of an indeterminate...elements of the original situation into a unified whole. ' ' • And a situation is said to be "not a single object or event or set of objects and events,"... | |
 | Horace Standish Thayer - 1981 - 646 sider
...ultimate source of logical subject matter." 20 Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, p. 8. Inquiry is defined as: the controlled or directed transformation of an indeterminate...elements of the original situation into a unified whole.21 One can scarcely help noticing the impersonal manner in which this definition of inquiry is... | |
 | Charles S. Peirce - 1982 - 388 sider
...directly in the present chapter and indirectly in the following chapters, is as follows: Inquiry is the controlled or directed transformation of an indeterminate...elements of the original situation into a unified whole.* The original indeterminate situation is not only "open" to inquiry, but it is open in the sense that... | |
 | Robert S. Cohen, Marx W. Wartofsky - 1984 - 394 sider
...so. [4] The crucial idea of John Dewey was that situations led the organism to inquire. Inquiry is the controlled or directed transformation of an indeterminate...elements of the original situation into a unified whole. [S ] This notion of inquiry did not please Bertrand Russell. It is clear that 'inquiry' as conceived... | |
 | Thomas A. Russman - 1987 - 236 sider
...to exercise "secondary thinking" in order to resolve the uneasy, problematic situation. Inquiry "is the controlled or directed transformation of an indeterminate...elements of the original situation into a unified whole."1 Ideas produced along the way of inquiry are to be treated as hypotheses to be tested experimentally.... | |
 | W.J. Gavin - 1988 - 278 sider
...crystallize what has gone wrong specifically, and then hypothesize what to do about it. Inquiry is the controlled or directed transformation of an indeterminate...elements of the original situation into a unified whole. 14 But here Dewey is careful to say that logical forms of inquiry are not transcendental; formal conceptions... | |
 | Mark Amadeus Notturno - 1989 - 520 sider
...linking Dewey and Merlcau-Ponty as well.10 The remark itself is drawn from Dewey's Logic: Inquiry is the controlled or directed transformation of an indeterminate...elements of the original situation into a unified whole." Dewey's essential point - one must bear in mind how early relative to phenomenology it was made - is... | |
 | Mark Amadeus Notturno - 1989 - 520 sider
...Logic. Inquiry is the controlled or directed transformation of an indeterminate situation into one mat is so determinate in its constituent distinctions...elements of the original situation into a unified whole." Dewey's essential point - one must bear in mind how early relative to phenomenology it was made - is... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood, Ronald N. Woods - 1990 - 440 sider
...consists of a continuous, highly patterned thought process with great instrumental utility: "Inquiry is the controlled or directed transformation of an indeterminate...original situation into a unified whole" [Dewey 1938, pp. 104-105, italics in original]. Dewey's instrumental theory of inquiry affects other concepts such... | |
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Inquiry is the controlled or directed transformation of an indeterminate situation into one that is so determinate in its constituent distinctions and relations as to convert the elements of the original situation into a unified whole. 
