Abstract
Communication makes it possible for subjective experience to become objective knowledge. The world of object-events is in continual flux. All knowing is abstract, aspectual, partial. Knowledge is the result of repeated, communicable experience and therefore numerical. If the enumeration is analytic, explicit, statistical, we have natural science knowledge. Dewey seems not to imply that social phenomena cannot be treated statistically, but that so far few of them have been. The only certainties transcending common sense in sociology or any other science are statistical in nature. Dewey emphasizes the idea that physical and social objects are not different kinds of reality but that genuine knowledge of man and society necessarily lags far behind physical knowledge.
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