Logic and Universalism

I went and found some more clips by Professor Hickman from the previous Dewey clip and in this particular clip he describes much of what we were talking about last week on the idea of "universals" and uses a great example of opening/closing a door and the importance of context. Hickman describes the importance of context and Dewey's emphasis of context and its importance in logical form.

Dewey believes logical forms grow out of experience, and they are subject to experience. All knowledge is contextual and has to do with particular cases, and this goes back to what we discussed in class and the idea that logic is the formalization of the problem-solving humans begin to do everyday in a way it will be helpful for them in the future.