...of itself certain traits, elements, and laws. If we give up the last view, we must take the former. The entire significance of the evolutionary method...the conditions involved in some specific situation. This analysis of value is carried out in detail by tracing successive stages of development — by...

...between the problem of origin and of nature, between genesis and analysis, between history and validity. The entire significance of the evolutionary method...instrument of adjustment or adaptation to a particular environTHE VICIOUS CIRCLE 267 ing situation. Its meaning, its character and its value is known when,...

...adaptation to a particular environTHE VICIOUS CIRCLE 267 ing situation. Its meaning, its character and its value is known when, and only when, it is considered as an arrangement for meeting the condition involved in some specific situation.* Why not apply this method, which has been so successful...

...it falls in line with the evolutionary process, wherein biology and social history disclose the fact that every distinct organ, structure, or formation,...or elements, has to be treated as an instrument of adaptation to a particular environing situation. Dewey thus boldly lays down the platform of instrumentalism....

...history is that every distinct organ, structure, or formation, every grouping of cells or elements, is to be treated as an instrument of adjustment or adaptation...environing situation. Its meaning, its character, its force, is known when, and only when, it is considered as an arrangement for meeting the conditions...

...history is that every distinct organ, ~sj£ucturej_orformation, every grouping of cells or elements, is to be treated as an instrument of adjustment or adaptation...environing situation. Its meaning, its character, its force, is known when, and only when, it is considered as an arrangement for meeting the conditions...

...traits of a specific response to a specific stimulus. _ The significance of the evolutionary method i1T biology and social history is that every distinct...or formation, every grouping of cells or elements, is to be treated as an instrument of adjustment or adaptation to a particular environing situa-. tion....

...ethnology, and gradually into the social sciences. "Bvery distinct organ, structure, or formation ... is to be treated as an instrument of adjustment or adaptation...environing situation. Its meaning, its character, its force is known when, and only. when, it is considered as an arrangement for meeting the oondi16 tions...

...Evolutionary naturalism, in Dewey's words, proves that "every distinct organ, structure, or formation" serves as "an instrument of adjustment or adaptation to a particular environing situation." 65 Thus thinking and willing play contributory roles in the evolution of the human species. Volition,...

...in dealing with problems in the human environment. In the Studies in Logic, Dewey put it this way: The entire significance of the evolutionary method...cells or elements, has to be treated as an instrument or adjustment or adaptation to a particular environing situation. Its meaning, its character, its value,...