 Logic of John Dewey (1859-1952)In Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, published in 1938, Dewey reported results of years spent criticizing traditional academic philosophy. He hoped to have resolved philosophers’ perennial debate over how to extend human understanding by relating facts—particular valuation-free means used in practice—to valuations—general fact-free theoretical ends. He made “ situation ” a universal focus to eliminate the imagined autonomy of theory and practice.
<meaning-changed>  Logic of John Dewey (1859-1952)In Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, published in 1938, Dewey reported results of years spent criticizing traditional academic philosophy. He hoped to have resolved philosophers’ perennial debate over how to extend human understanding by relating facts—particular valuation-free means used in practice—to valuations—general fact-free theoretical ends. He made “ situation ” a universal focus to eliminate the imagined autonomy of theory and practice.
 process by which a social scientist tries to reconstruct the problem situation ” a universal focus to eliminate the imagined autonomy of theory and practice.