y in the mind but that is caused by real features of the external object, in this case the apple. Color is a quality admitted only by the eyes, as sound is admitted only by the hearing, or taste only by the palate (Locke 123). Taste enters as Eve eats the apple, but it does not affect her perception of the extended red apple. She identifies the apple as an apple by its shape and color. She will know that this is an apple because she has been told that this shape and color signify an apple and no other thing. Eve has acquired these ideas from experience and from God, who has told her not to eat the apple, thus indicating that it could be eaten and thus identifying it as an apple at the same time.
Dewey challenges the traditional view of experience when he links Experience and Nature in the title of his book, noting that this would be seen as unusual to many people:
Experience, they say, is important for those beings who have it, but is too casual and sporadic in its occurrence to carry with it any important implications regarding the nature of Nature. Mature, on the other hand, is said to be compete apart from experience (Dewey 1a).
Experience here is an entirely human thing, the act of experiencing the world through the senses. In the natural sciences, says Dewey, "there is a union of experience and nature which is not greeted as a monstrosity":
The investigator assumes as a matter of course that experience, controlled in specifiable ways, is the avenue that leads to the facts and laws of nature. He uses reason and calculation freely; he could not get along without them (Dewey
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