In this paper I am going to discuss John Dewey's view on truth. John Dewey is a famous American philosopher whose works are very well-known and provide a list of ideas that changed the traditional view on philosophy and truth. One may consider Dewey's philosophy as the most successful attempt to remold the traditional Anglo-Saxon empiricism. He wanted to see in intelligence, though asserting its primacy in human endeavour, only the instrument of action, the …
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…static and the change less above the moving and the changing; to conceive knowledge as an ensemble of absolute truths and certainties, morality as obedience to principles or to ends also absolute; and to strive to construct reality in all its aspects out of fixed and ready-made elements. Bibliography 1.Dewey, John. Experience and Nature. Rev. ed. N.Y., W. W. Norton & Co., 1929 2.Dewey, John, Reconstruction in Philosophy. New York: Holt & Co., 1920