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Dewey recognizes this source and gives expression to it in Experience and Nature. He says there that it is the “intricate mixture of the stable and the precarious, the fixed and the unpredictably novel, the assured and the uncertain, in existence which sets mankind upon that love of wisdom which forms philosophy” (EN 55).
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Raymond D. Boisvert (Dewey's Metaphysics: Form and Being in the Philosophy of John Dewey)