dewey reflective thinking

• thinking could mean
  • simply uncontrolled coursing of ideas in our heads, or the successions of imaginative incidents and episodes hanging together on a continuous thread, having a certain conference, deliberately employed to establish a conclusion
  • it may be characterised but beliefs that are easily accepted very often without awareness of where and for the thoughts were picked up
• reflective thinking is defined by Dewey not simply as a sequence of ideas, but a consequence—a consecutive ordering, each idea determines the next as is proper outcome, while each outcome in turn refers to its predecessors, the ideas support one another
• john dewey instrumentalism pragmatism