Re: [Critical-Realism] rts2-11

[<gdemetrion@xxxxxxx>]

"I still want to say I think that her erring and not-erring are distinct  
sides of the same coin -- an aspect of the duality of praxis. In putting her  
hand in the flame she errs but also makes a real discovery about the world.  
How her reception of this discovery is to be conceptualised is moot. But I  
can't see that one can derive anything from error alone here

Agreed, error identification as a stimulant toward problem identification and resolution.  For Dewey, in particular, the awareness of a problem; more fundamentally, some incongruity which forces itself upon consciousness by the nature of the situation (the burned hand, the exact example on which Dewey draws on) becomes the very basis that stimulated THE NEED for resolution; hence, propels the inquiry process until some proximate resolution (which he calls "warranted assertion") emerges to temporally solve that problem, which then may fed into other problems requiring resolution in other situations.

George Demetrion
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