¹ If recollection is correct, the three-day, many-sessioned celebration of Dewey's eightieth birthday in New York last year discussed all possible philosophical by-paths, but left wholly untouched the kernel of the Logic, which is his central life-work.

² Logic, The theory of Inquiry (1938), pp. 21, 57, 106, 159, 525, 530. As early as 1896 Dewey displayed the “organic unity” of behavior as over against either “mentalist” or “reflex arc” stresses (Psychol. Rev., 3, 1896, p. 358), at the same time forecasting an application to “judgment” (Ibid, p. 370). In 1908 (J. Phil., Psychol., & Sci, Meth., 5, pp. 375 ff.) he displayed the influences which lead men without proper justification to treat “ideas” as “private” or “personal.” In Experience and Nature, 1925, p. 75, he made a plea for an interdict for a generation upon the use of words, mind, matter, and consciousness as nouns. Most philosophers regard such views as fancy-dress to be put on and off upon occasion. For Dewey they are his working clothes.

³ Logic, p. 55. This compact terminology was a late adoption: the fruit of fifty years of logical inquiry. It is so late that it is not rigorously employed (particularly in the case of “relation”) even in the earlier-written chapters of the Logic itself. It is, however, present in attitude and approach, if not in express phrasing, throughout the entire book, and the discrepancies of phrase can readily be allowed for.

⁴ Whereas Dewey's terms all indicate processes in time and space, and the same is true of Sisson's first term, probably of his third, and possibly of his fourth, it is precisely the restoration of the old timeless-spaceless mental essence at which his second term, Correspondence, is aimed. The word “correspondence” is directly reminiscent of the old “idea” or “image” in the private stream of consciousness reflecting “outer realities” with which it can never make actual contact.