action and notions of inquiry
Peirce viewed inquiry (logic) as any process which resulted in change from
- a state of doubt (a disturbance of the harmony of one’s actions, an uneasy state from which we struggle to free ourselves)
- to a state of belief (a state which guides our desires and shapes our actions)
Dewey’s conception of inquiry incorporates the notion of a situation
- a particular type of experience is inextricably linked with knowledge and assumes a different meaning from the traditional objective view of knowledge as of information
- inquiry is a response to one’s experience of doubt, and doubt is attributed to situations (not people), it is an experience - a process of undergoing
- a process of standing something, he perceives knowledge as an action—the processes which transform a problematic situation into a resolved one
- through the inquiry process, a belief that has become problematic is scrutinised and resolved by taking action, knowledge becomes a verb—the process of knowing
knowing is not something which is imposed from outside spectator theory of knowing, but is something that occurs within nature (from the organism)—an act which modifies what previously existed