RECORDS. 309 



Dewey claims that this is a complete misreading of the thought 

 situation. 



On the other hand, common sense and empirical science with 

 their pragmatic and evolutionary method disclose the real situ- 

 ation. Thought is a question of specific purposes, specific con- 

 texts and specific conflicts. Common sense and empirical sci- 

 ence assume for these specific aims the unity and continuity of 

 experience. The logical problem emerges when this is broken 

 up by an inward conflict into fact and theory, datum and ide- 

 atum. The content of thought is just this conflict, which is only 

 a temporaiy phase of the logical situation, the outcome of which 

 must always be the reestablishment of the original unity in our 

 experience. 



It follows from this that logic cannot contemplate as its aim 

 a completely rationalized metaphysics. Rather its function is 

 to act as a philosophy of experience, as a mctliod by which ex- 

 perience may be advanced towards better and more complete 

 knowledge. But the rectification of experience and the com- 

 plete correlation of all the functions of experience presuppose a 

 logic of genetic experience. It is Dewey's merit to have pointed 

 this out and to have, in large part, supplied the need in the 

 present work. 



Dr. MacDoTigall made a provisional report upon an investi- 

 gation of the distribution of errors in spelling English words. 

 These occur characteristically in the latter part of the word, but 

 do not present a continuous increase from beginning to end. 

 The curve of error is an anticlinal having its maximum in the 

 third quarter of the word and its points of origin the initial and 

 final letters, of which the latter is the higher in the scale of 

 errors. Similar relations are presented by the component syl- 

 lables, fewest errors occur in the initial, most in the median 

 letters. Considered apart from their relation to the termination 

 of the word, the frequency of error in successive letters is found 

 to increase with each remove from the beginning of the word. 



Dr. King's paper stated that magic and religion can not be 

 legitimately distinguished on the side of the actual content of 

 their respective practices, nor b}' using such notions as that of 



