Dewey's View on Language, Meaning, and Science

The present paper is a study on the interwoven constituents of language, meaning, and science in thought of the pragmatist philosopher, John Dewey. In this article the social and common identity of language has been considered. For Dewey, All concepts are dialectically coming after each other and develop, so the theory of language after the discussion of meaning, and meaning after inquiry and inquiry after the uncertainty and instrumentalism and then the problematic situation.The theory of language is reached by the topic of meaning, and meaning by the concept of convention and social agreement, and theory of inquiry by the consensus among scientists. Thus we, in Dewey, are faced with a kind of relativism which are common among most empiricist philosophers.