Examples, illlustrations from art and law.
Inquiries are formative and operational.
Eliminate emphasis on subjectivist or mental states. Liberate our conceptions from the notions of the unobservable, transcendental, or intuitional. Nature is an environment we're in, and the organism must decide upon a response. The problem helps make the indeterminate situation determinate, and itself helps determine the nature of the query and response. In Dewey's view, perceptions and ideas function correlatively.