# John Dewey - How We Think (Highlights)  ## Metadata **Cover**:: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41btAlvX0nL._SL200_.jpg **Source**:: #from/readwise **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[John Dewey]] **Full Title**:: How We Think **Category**:: #books #readwise/books **Category Icon**:: 📚 **Highlighted**:: [[2021-02-06]] **Created**:: [[2022-09-26]] ## Highlights - WHAT IS THOUGHT? ([Location 50](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005UFW3CS&location=50)) - Four senses of thought, from the wider to the limited ([Location 51](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005UFW3CS&location=51)) - I. In its loosest sense, thinking signifies everything that, as we say, is "in our heads" or that "goes through our minds." ([Location 61](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005UFW3CS&location=61)) - Reflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence—a consecutive ordering in such a way that each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors. ([Location 71](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005UFW3CS&location=71)) - II. Even when thinking is used in a broad sense, it is usually restricted to matters not directly perceived: ([Location 76](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005UFW3CS&location=76)) - III. In its next sense, thought denotes belief resting upon some basis, that is, real or supposed knowledge going beyond what is directly present. ([Location 87](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005UFW3CS&location=87)) - Some beliefs are accepted when their grounds have not themselves been considered, others are accepted because their grounds have been examined. ([Location 90](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005UFW3CS&location=90)) - Thinking in its best sense is that which considers the basis and consequences of beliefs ([Location 98](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005UFW3CS&location=98)) - IV. Thoughts that result in belief have an importance attached to them which leads to reflective thought, to conscious inquiry into the nature, conditions, and bearings of the belief. ([Location 99](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005UFW3CS&location=99)) - Active, persistent, and careful consideration of any belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the grounds that support it, and the further conclusions to which it tends, constitutes reflective thought. ([Location 114](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005UFW3CS&location=114)) - signifying ([Location 127](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005UFW3CS&location=127)) - The seen thing is regarded as in some way the ground or basis of belief in the suggested thing; ([Location 135](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005UFW3CS&location=135)) - This function by which one thing signifies or indicates another, and thereby leads us to consider how far one may be regarded as warrant for belief in the other, is, then, the central factor in all reflective or distinctively intellectual thinking. ([Location 137](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005UFW3CS&location=137)) - through something else which stands as witness, evidence, proof, voucher, warrant; that is, as ground of belief. ([Location 144](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005UFW3CS&location=144)) - Thinking, ([Location 148](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005UFW3CS&location=148)) - is defined accordingly as that ([Location 148](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005UFW3CS&location=148)) - operation in which present facts suggest other facts (or truths) in such a way as to induce belief in the latter upon the ground or warrant of the former. ([Location 149](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005UFW3CS&location=149)) - it always has a certain element of supposition. ([Location 152](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005UFW3CS&location=152))