 Dewey offered inductive plus deductive situational logic as an alternative to traditional analyses that started with conceptual ”facts” and ended with “known truths.”%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% Critique by Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) Russell did not take kindly to Dewey's effort to reconstruct philosophy. In 1939, he contributed a critical essay to the Library of Living Philosophers volume entitled The Philosophy of John Dewey. He entitled his contribution “Dewey’s New Logic” which he identified with a doctrine labeled instrumentalism. He suggested that Dewey's logic could be partly explained by the cultural situation or “social system” prevailing in the United States—“the age of industrialism and collective enterprise”—and by the academic context of competition between British analytic philosophy and German synthetic philosophy.
<meaning-changed>  Dewey offered inductive plus deductive situational logic as an alternative to traditional analyses that started with conceptual ”facts” and ended with “known truths.”%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% Critique by Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) Russell did not take kindly to Dewey's effort to reconstruct philosophy. In 1939, he contributed a critical essay to the Library of Living Philosophers volume entitled The Philosophy of John Dewey. He entitled his contribution “Dewey’s New Logic” which he identified with a doctrine labeled instrumentalism. He suggested that Dewey's logic could be partly explained by the cultural situation or “social system” prevailing in the United States—“the age of industrialism and collective enterprise”—and by the academic context of competition between British analytic philosophy and German synthetic philosophy.
 Dewey offered inductive plus deductive situational logic as an alternative to traditional analyses that started with conceptual ”facts” and ended with “known truths.”%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% 