 These incompatible criteria are present today in popular approaches to rational problem solving, without acknowledgment of their philosophical origins. Popper's logic underlies the value-free tool labelled SWOT analysis widely applied to conjectural situations in business and government. Situational awareness is a technological application of Dewey's instrumental situational logic. In the fact-free mediation tool labeled Mindfulness, the pre-cognitive starting point of Dewey’s logic appears as a valued end point. Dividing theory from practice and fact from value contaminates rationality.
<coherence>  These incompatible criteria are present today in popular approaches to rational problem solving, without acknowledgment of their philosophical origins. Popper's logic underlies the value-free tool labelled SWOT analysis widely applied to conjectural situations in business and government. Situational awareness is a technological application of Dewey's instrumental situational logic. In the fact-free mediation tool labeled Mindfulness, the pre-cognitive starting point of Dewey’s logic appears as a valued end point. Dividing theory from practice and fact from value contaminates rationality.