Dewey, J. (1938). Logic: The Theory of Inquiry. Henry Holt and Company.
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Why this is here
A15 §1 named it “the closest predecessor” of the owner’s U15 (“inquiry is a form of specification”): problem formulation is an achievement of inquiry, not its given starting point. A16 §3 read Dewey’s indeterminate situation as one whose relevant distinctions are not yet established, and paired Dewey with Simondon as accounts that put a process of determination before determinate products. The definition quoted in the summary is the standard one and was not checked against the text. It bears on CLAIM-470.