ARTS140 Lecture Notes - Sea Anemone, Active Voice
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Dewey: pragmatists sought to explain how we come to accept a belief. Pierce: beliefs are a habit of action, when beliefs break down and doubt is the result. Just because you feel doubt doesn"t mean you should act a certain way or deal with it in a certain way. Inquiry is progressive, not purely mental, biological and physical aspects. Psychological feeling of doubt and relief, how does the world constrain our reasoning. What is a situation: a eld of experience that has a certain distinctive quality that makes it distinctive, an episode of some series. Ex rst day of university, it was the rst day, certain quality to it that makes it stand out. Integration, we are a system of interactions with our environment. Life is the processes which take place within organism-environmental systems. These processes involve a balance of forces and energies. If balance is lost an adaptation is required to return to a new balance.
