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Abstract

The author gives the description - with a special focus on the reconstruction of his logic of practical judgements - of the conception of dialectics between thought and action as had been presented in John Dewey's philosophy. Dewey's axiom was that human thought and action always take place within concrete natural and social contexts, which means that they are in principle re-actions and trans-actions to and between other factors of the practical situation. The general purpose of all human activity according to this conception is solving the problem or, to put it in another way, the transition from indeterminate to unified situation of the agent. The practical reasoning or judgement deals not only with means but also with their relation to ends with respect to solving the problem of "what's to be done?"