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    Problems do not preexist inquiry — Carmelics
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    Problems do not preexist inquiry

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    • 1.What is initially present in inquiry is indeterminate rather than a fully formed problem
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    • 2.A problem must be specifically formulated through the process of inquiry itself
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    • 1.Some problems are constituted by mind-independent structural features of reality that obtain prior to any cognitive engagement with them.
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    • 2.The Gettier problem, for instance, existed as a genuine logical gap in justified true belief accounts before anyone articulated it.
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    • 3.If a problem can be discovered rather than constructed, its existence cannot depend on the inquiry that reveals it.
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    • 1.Dewey conflates the epistemic conditions required to recognize a problem with the ontological conditions required for the problem to exist.
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    • 2.A surgeon who dies before diagnosing a patient's tumor does not retroactively eliminate the pathological condition that was already causing harm.
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    Throughout his career, Dewey described processes and patterns evident in active problem solving. Here, we consider three: inquiry, knowledge, and truth. There is, Dewey argued, a “pattern of inquiry” which prevails in problem solving. In “Analysis of Reflective Thinking” (1933, LW8) and LTI (LW12) it has five phases. Explicitly disavowing categorical divisions between emotion and reason, the initial phase of inquiry begins (1) with a feeling of something amiss, a unique and particular doubtfulne
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