John Dewey Truth And Consequences Summary

In John Dewey's essay Truth and Consequences, he criticizes and reevaluates the traditionally held belief that a true proposition should contain a reference to that which is true about itself. For Dewey, truth should not make a reference to what is 'really' perceived, because that is already implied when speaking about anything. Instead, he suggests thinking about truth as that which will fulfill the requirements of future problem solving activity.

In Section one, I will summarize Dewey’s argument that factual knowledge does not itself count as truth. I will also explain why Dewey criticizes the currently held view that knowledge is justified true belief and what he deems to be a more stimulating or useful way to define truth. In section
Ambitious is a term that could describe a person who did not look to antecedent conditions to relay to oneself the actions of the future, if one never thinks about antecedent conditions because he/she obsessed over furthering goals and advancing in life, that would be borderline inhuman. That is, more often than not people have habituated their modes of action because they are stuck in a present that is always based on a past that matters. If in one’s life, one can find meaning by adding memories to a bank to store as the sum of one’s actions, there is profundity in referring to antecedent conditions as a way of reflecting on the present circumstances one finds oneself in, regardless of the endeavors one will pursue. If one only ever desires to take what antecedent conditions one can use to solve a problem, and fulfill unmet desires, then the meaning of the whole life becomes a constant need to fulfill an uncertain future. Pragmatically it makes sense to look toward action with consequences, but there is little meaning to find in a permanent state of affairs that is never
An important change would be to redefine the currently held notion of knowledge as justified true belief. I say that truth itself cannot be redefined because within each true statement, one is not only referencing what is real, but making a distinction between the real-in-itself and our perception of it. One might object, as Dewey does, that there must still be another aspect of how we define truth, because the conditions under which we seek truth usually involve a fixation on solving future problems. I reply, the convention of language arises because humans need to reaffirm the past embedded with meaning, and that a fixed state of affairs (the past) needs to be reflected upon, and the bank of memories people carry around usually determine their future actions, the collection of their actions must be reflected upon to know how to proceed in the