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How We Think

Name: How We Think
Author: John Dewey

John Dewey

Read by Linda Andrus · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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Chapters

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00 - PREFACE (3:24)
01 - I. What is Thought? (32:22)
02 - II. The Need For Training Thought (35:40)
03 - III. Natural Resources in the Training of Thought (36:41)
04 - IV. Social Conditions and the Training of Thought (23:43)
05 - V. Training: The Psychological and the Logical (28:40)
06 - VI. The Analysis of a Complete Act of Thought (24:58)
07 - VII. Systematic Inference: Induction and Deduction (50:13)
08 - VIII. Judgment: The Interpretation of Facts (37:19)
09 - IX. Meaning: Or Conceptions and Understanding (46:47)
10 - X. Concrete and Absract Thinking (23:50)
11 - XI. Empirical and Scientific Thinking (28:14)
12 - XII. Activity and the Training of Thought (30:47)
13 - XIII. Language and the Training of Thought (43:28)
14 - XIV. Observation and Information in the Training of Mind (29:44)
15 - XV. The Recitation and the Training of Thought (31:28)
16 - XVI. Some General Conclusions (26:59)

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