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<meaning-changed> %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% 1) HOW LARGE IS A SITUATION? Russell was troubled by Dewey treating situations as the starting point of new knowledge. If knowledge grows by inquiry that relates unique problematic situations to environmental continuing factors, how can that activity exclude anything in the universe? It merges particular facts into universal regularities. “It is obvious that, in an inquiry into the tides, the sun and moon must be included in the ‘situation . ’ I do not see how, on Dr. Dewey's principles, a ‘situation’ can embrace less than the whole universe;
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