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The quest for certainty

a study of the relation of knowledge and action

by John Dewey

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These eleven lectures were originally presented by John Dewey at the University of Edinburgh in 1929, when he was seventy years old. They represent his most mature thinking on the theory of knowledge and how it relates to human behavior.

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